On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux. Besides > having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port > directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime lib > stuff. I don't think that dosemu would fix all this (does dosemu allow > direct access to hw?). I think I might just re-write the thing into C > and have an easier time. (Wasn't there a Pascal-to-C converter package > somewhere? Thought I saw it in Bo or Hamm)
I kind of doubt dosemu would be happy about your program trying to access the hardware directly, but I don't know for sure. There is f2c, a Fortran-to-C converter, but I am not aware of one for Pascal-to-C. If you're feeling ambitious, I'm sure no one would mind if you wrote a converter. Wish I could help, but I don't really know programming.
