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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pascal to C source conversion utility
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Date: 8 Oct 90 11:50:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: rlm@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert L. Mullen)

>>>>> In article <1990Oct6.144333.2334@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, rlm@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert L. Mullen) (RLM) writes:

RLM> Is there a pascal to C source conversion utility availble?

There are at least two of these, called p2c and ptc.

p2c is a very elaborate one which knows all kinds of Pascal dialects and
even a bit of Modula-2.

ptc is a simple straightforward program that has been successfully used to
translate TeX and Metafont. It does not do procedural parameters where the
actual parameter is a nested procedure/function.

The difference can also be seen from the sizes of the packages:
  -rw-r--r--   1 piet     staff     195967 Jul  3 13:50 ptc-1.10.tar.Z
  -rw-r--r--   1 piet     staff     561084 Oct  8 12:36 p2c-1.18.tar.Z

How to get ptc-1.10.tar.Z and p2c-1.18.tar.Z from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/TEX3.0/ptc-1.10.tar.Z
    get UNIX/p2c-1.18.tar.Z

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu
    send TEX/TEX3.0/ptc-1.10.tar.Z
    send UNIX/p2c-1.18.tar.Z
    end

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