23 Nov
2002
23 Nov
'02
7:05 p.m.
A friend of mine wrote an extensive CAD program using HP-Pascal back in the mid 1980s. The program was used exclusively on HP workstations. HP had two variations of Pascal. One was a standalone operating environment, the other worked under HPUX. The CAD program was developed under the workstation version.
My friend would like to move this program to the PC world. One approach is "P2C" which converts HP-Pascal code to C. I just discovered GPC and would like to know if it is fairly compatible with HP-Pascal. I'm sure there would be a ton of rewriting that would be necessary whether the P2C or GPC approach is taken, but I would like to get a general idea of GPC compatibility. Thank you very much.
John Hardy