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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
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Subject: RPLC & its availability
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Date: 5 Feb 91 03:18:29 GMT
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Given my previous posts on the subject, I feel compelled to relate to the
(c.s.h.) world the current status of my RPL compiler.  Due to situations
beyond my control, my previous work on rplc was pretty much wasted.  I have
since restarted.  It will now be a preprocessor to Jan's star.  I expect
the beta version to be available to all who want a copy by the end of
February.  (In all likelyhood, the beta version will simply take a src file
with the extension .rpl and output a file w/ the extension .star, which can
be used as src to star.  I will wait until later to set up a full-fledged
rplc command (I expect similar functionality to cc, complete w/ its
interactions w/ the assembler.)

I'll most likely post the beta version.  It will come with a gnu-type
copyleft.

(I should also notet that I intend to use a symbols file which has the same
syntax as sad .symbols files; thus the combination of sad, star & rplc will
facilitate a fairly robust production environment, though not (yet) quite
so robust as HP's development system.)

I appologise for the delay from my previous estimates, but this version
will be more powerful than the previous, so it should be worth the wait.

-JimC
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(also, on hp's bbs, my usrname is 'cloos'.)