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From: spex@dnlunx.UUCP (Griendt H.vdr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal to C translator
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Date: 21 Aug 89 13:48:32 GMT
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atk@tigger.colorado.edu (Alan T. Krantz) writes:

>A few weeks ago I posted a request for a pascal to c translator. 
>I got several good responses and picked up p2c (or is it ptc). 
>Well, today I got around to trying it out and found that it couldn't
>handle a turbo-pascal program very well because of turbo-pascal's many
>non-standard features such as units, string procedure, and non-standard
>ordering of declarations (i.e., you can declare types then constants then
>types again). 

>So, now I am resending my request specifically asking for a turbo-pascal
>5.0 to C translator. I realize that I may need to code some of the
>functions supplied by turbo-pascal in C - but a translator that will
>generate the appropriate C calls without aborting would be useful...


>Thank you,
>Alan KranTz

I would be very pleased with a program like that too. I have to do it by
hand now. 

Henk van der Griendt

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