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Marks a tree or trees of items and then translates the marked items to
the C language. The resulting C code can be then compiled with an appropriate
C compiler to an executable file.
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TRANSLATE TO C
Type noun of item to translate,
LV, LF, or LN to list items
or RETURN if no more.
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SEE ALSO: SELECTIVE SAVE
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TRANSLATE TO C operates similarly to SELECTIVE SAVE, in that it marks a tree or trees of items, and only those items marked are translated.
You do not have to selective first the items you want to translate.
TRANSLATE TO C will ask repeatedly for items to mark. For each item entered, its complete tree will be marked (all items referenced by it or any of the verbs it uses). In the case of building a library, it may be necessary to choose multiple items if the library is intended to contain a number of different groups of functions. In the case of building a program, it will usually be the case that you simply mark everything from AUTOEXEC, and nothing more.
Either when building a program or a library, it will sometimes be desired to skip over certain groups of verbs if those verbs were previously translated and or compiled and made into a library. In order to do this, after typing items to mark, TRC asks for items to unmark. It is intended that you type the names of the groups of programs that are already in libraries that you wish to skip from this translation pass. All items typed here will be unmarked, for their full tree, just like the marking process in reverse. At the end of this process you will have remaining as marked only those programs which need to be translated to C.
The next prompt asks for the name of the destination file. Type the name of the executable file or library, but without any extension.
The next prompt asks whether this file will be a program or library.
A prompt next asks for the path to the file HIO.DEF. This file is only needed when linking for OS/2. If you do not intend to use OS/2, simply press RETURN here. Otherwise, enter the correct path. Do not enter a backslash at the end of the path.
The next prompt asks for a list of the libraries to use when linking this program. Of course you must answer this correctly, in accordance with what you have unmarked above, or linking will not complete. You must NOT use wildcard characters here. Each library must be specified individually. Path names may be added if desired.
Following this, the process begins. The only files created are .C files and the necessary files for linking, which all begin with the name given for the destination file with appropriate extensions.
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