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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Has anyone ported bsd Pascal to 386bsd yet?
Date: 17 Feb 1993 10:59:31 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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  I have been playing around with the pascal sources found in 
/pub/public_domain_software/bsd-sources/usr.bin/pascal@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
and have been getting a lot of errors.  Many are solvable locally, but others
require more experience than I can supply.  This appears to be a very old
version of pascal, but should be reasonably portable.  I have defined a 
set of 'i386' device dependencies, and they seem to be working (sort of).
My three unanswered questions are below:

  1:  What is /usr/libexec/pascal/eyacc?  Can straight yacc (or bison) be
used instead?

  2:  The 'ex' scripts supplied with the Makefile do not interact correctly 
with elvis when linked to 'ex'.  Can anyone offer a historical perspective
on what some of the differences might be?  I am completely lost with 'ex',
so I may require a little 'hand-holding'.

  3:  Has anyone ported pascal (this or a newer version) to 386bsd?  If so,
I would really love a pointer to an FTP site.


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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX