Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Query - has anyone seen a BASIC (gasp) to C translator? Message-ID: <8809080923.aa03795@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 8 Sep 88 13:16:40 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 >This is bastoc.exe. >Runs on MS/PS DOS machines. Quite apart from the fact that the file is WAY TOO MANY KILOBYTES for a comp.sys. list, AND that there are assorted comp.binaries.XXX for this sort of thing, WHY ON EARTH post an MeSsy-DOS file to an **APPLE** (perhaps that escapes you???) list????? At most: 1) send it to the specific person that asked about translating BASIC to C, and 2) post (a really SHORT) message to the comp.sys... lists letting the World know you have it 3) send it to comp.binaries.ibmpc if you MUST post it to a list. >It's free, and I think I got a great bargain! I have used it on >some simple stuff. ...disclaimer... disclaimer ... disclaimer. >I don't have any documentation for it either. No docs? An even BETTER reason not to unload it onto an unsuspecting World. I don't think it's a bargain -- I haven't a use for it (I intend to skip MeSsy-DOS altogether and go straight to OS/2 -- while I happen to know how to program in BASIC, I rarely have use for it any longer; I'll happily let old BAS programs fade into history or simply use them under a BASIC interpreter). Given the price (free) of that translator, how efficient is the code likely to be (especially if no effort was made to structure the BAS program in the first place)? Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)