Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!upba!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP Basic convertors Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 19:40:32 GMT References: <2966@hub.UUCP> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Design Data Lines: 31 In-reply-to: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu's message of 10 Nov 89 06:32:20 GMT In article <2966@hub.UUCP> crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes: > > A gentleman I know is attempting to port a large BASIC program written on > a HP 300 (version 4.0 basic I believe) to a UN*X machine. Does anyone > know of a HP BASIC to C convertor? I'll summarize responses. > Thanks! Well, we here at Design Data would like to know about one too. The last time we looked for one was about a year ago and there was none to be found, so we have started to develop our own. If you find one, let us know. We dont want to re-invent the wheel. If you dont find one, let us know. We might have a converter on the market in 6 months to a year. -wayne Development Manager Design Data wayne@dsndata.uucp p.s. It turns out that even a trivial converter doesnt work too well because of the way that rocky mountain basic and C differ on converting integers to reals, passing parameters and indexing arrays. Unless you keep track of things real well, you basically have to convert and/or double check most things by hand any. not fun.