Hewlett Packard Pascal compatibility

23 Nov 2002

      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

John W. Hardy

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