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Subject: Re: msdos.worldmap, Z-100 conversion
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Date: 1 Jul 88 19:52:55 GMT
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> I seem to remember
> reading something about a TP-to-TC conversion program "out there", but
> that introduces yet another variable into a process that invariably
> never reaches completion due to lack of time, so that's a last resort.
		> don             [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa]

Microsoft is distributing a Turbo-Pascal to C conversion program, presumably
to encourage people to use MSC and Quick C.  I have it, but I'm not too
happy with it.  It does "too good" a job.  Almost all function calls get
converted to calls to special library routines like T2CM_READ(...) which
they supply.  There is a lot of manual work left if you want readable, not
just executable, code.  I would have been happier if they would have 
automated the syntax conversion only, and flagged the I/O routines for
manual conversion.
                            - Jim Van Zandt