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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
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Subject: Re: ctex documentation
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 14:39:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 14:39:30 1987
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In article <1501@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>There's also the problem of different Pascal variants. What runs on Vax "pc",
>won't necessarily run on another machine, like, say, an Amiga runnin AmigaDOS,
>or a Pyramid running Unix, despite both of those machines having a Pascal
>compiler. The "otherwise" clauses on case statements, for example, often have
>to be kludged around via various preprocessors and such.

This is quite true; but the tangle output is in a quite vanillia pascal that
intentionally avoids as many of theses variant constructs as possible.  Its
output is very difficult to read by humans, but humans are supposed to look
at the weave output.  The TeX program should run on a minimal Jensen & Wirth
pascal, if I remember correctly.  That is, all identifiers are unique in the
first six characters, all capital letters, etc.  The (few) non-standard
constructs are mentioned in the documentation and may be avoided with suitable
flags.
		mike


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