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- From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Developer's Electronic Magazine
- Message-ID: <C1EvEu.Frs@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <19930124.214021.607@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:13:41 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <19930124.214021.607@almaden.ibm.com> pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller) writes:
-
- >>In article <19930122.084021.70@almaden.ibm.com>, pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller) writes:
- >>> Also assuming no really complicated IPF markup, a
- >>> rexx program could be written to convert the .ipf file to a plain
- >>> text file.
- >>
- >>Does such a tool exist already?
-
- >Not that I know of. But I've done stuff like this before. It's not
- >impossible, and the less complicated the source langauge (IPF), the
- >less complicated the translator. The PostScript converter would
- >be the >fun< one! I've been thinking about it a little over the
- >weekend, looking through the IPF language docs. I think it's certainly
- >do-able - the only concern with REXX would be performance - which
- >shouldn't matter much - you won't be converting stuff ALL that often.
- >I'll probably make a start on this, but it likely would be submitted
- >via the IBM EWS program, so it won't be available any time REAL soon.
-
- Hey, Patrick!
-
- Has anyone given any thought to using any of the YACC work-alikes to
- generate a parser for IPF? If so, you not only get decent C code
- (read as: performance), but it should also be fairly easy to generate
- anything you like.
-
- (I *knew* my compiler class would come in handy for something! :)
-
- Cheers,
- Q
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