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Indeed SIMED was a fairly versatile source code formatter. It was developed
in Sweden and released as part of the LIBSIM libraries along with the DEC 10
system. It was later released with the VAX/VMS system which Iused to sell. The
rights to it were also purchased by Lund Software and I thought it was included
on the Lund release tape, but I am not sure. I do not have a copy easily to
hand, but have no objections to it being made available if Lund also agree.

The help file from VMS follows.

Rob Pooley
Department of Computer Science
Edinburgh University
Kings Buildings
Mayfield
Edinburgh      EH9 3JZ
Scotland

Tel. +44 131 650 5123

Fax. +44 131 667 7209

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                              SIMED

     --- SIMULA Editor and Indentation program Version 2 ---


The SIMED program edits SIMULA source  program  files  into  more
readable form.

SIMED can  be  used  to  indent  a  SIMULA  program  (for  better
readability)  according  to  the  BEGIN-END  structure.   This is
especially useful when the  program  contains  BEGIN-END  nesting
errors, which usually will produce unhelpful compiler messages.

SIMED may also be used to convert reserved  words,  standard  and
user identifiers to -
1) UPPER CASE 2) lower case 3) Edit Case (1st char.  upper case).

Lines which become too long when indented will be split up at  an
appropriate position.

If one of  the  following  conditions  holds,  comments  are  not
indented -
a) The start of the line is part of a comment or
b) The end of the line is part of an (unfinished) comment.
(Thus labels are left unindented if preceded by !<CR><LF>
;LAB:...)

Lines starting with % will not be indented nor edited, they  will
just be copied into the output file.


Command format for SIMED (example):

outfile=infile/i:4/r:80/e:13200

Default switches:
/I:4            Indent step 4. A non-positive argument
                implies that leading tabs and blanks
                will be preserved and indented according to
                Abs(arg).

/E:13200        Edit Reserved words, standard ids, own ids,
/E:UEL00        Comments and Options, Text and Character
                constants resp. 1 (U) = Upper CASE,
                2 (L) = Lower Case, 3 (E) = Edit case,
                0 = no change.
                Thus /E:000 will suppress all editing.

/R:80           Outfile record length 80.

/TABS           Use tabs in indentation (default)

/C              Check for non-unique identifiers
                with length >=12 (producing warnings).

Other switches:
/SIMSET         Recognize SIMSET identifiers
                (default for SIMSET and SIMULATION blocks)
/-SIMSET        Do not recognize SIMSET ids
/SIMULATION     Recognize SIMULATION identifiers
                (default for SIMULATION blocks)
/-SIMULATION    Do not recognize SIMULATION ids
/-TABS          Do not use tabs
/NUMBERED:xx    Produce line numbers, incr. xx (def. 100)
                (default if input file has numbers).
/-NUMBERED      Suppress line numbers on output.
                (default if input file has no line numbers).
/-C             Do not check long id:s (5-20% cheaper).
/Z:n            Suppress indentation for n block levels. May
                be < 0, >= -10, assuming surrounding levels.
                Default /Z:0.
!xxx            Run program XXX after processing, if SOS
                then start in CCL entry.
                Thus ABC!SOS will return to SOS editing
                last file edited. The command !SOS or !TECO
                is also legal.
                Special interpretations:
                !1 will compile the output file (COMPILE).
                !2 will as well load it (LOAD/COM).
                !3 will also start it (EXECUTE/COM).

Your own default switches can also be given in a file  SWITCH.INI
on your area.  You need only have one or more lines of the form:

SIMED /switch/switch...

Example:  If you want files to be edited with reserved  words  in
lower  case,  your  own  identifiers  in upper case, and standard
identifiers   with   upper   case   initial   letter,    standard
indentation=2,  record  length=100,  put  the  following  line in
SWITCH.INI:

SIMED /E:LEU/I:2/R:100

Trailing zeros in the E  switch  may  be  omitted  -  the  system
default will be used in those positions.  You can always override
the default values in the command to SIMED.

Default extension is SIM.  Default outfile name is  infile  name.
(NUL:  and TTY:  are accepted.)

If you want only default values, the command string to  edit  the
file X.SIM with the same output file name is simply X.

The shortest possible command to apply SIMED to a file X.SIM is -

.SIMED X                (@SIMED -X in TOPS-20)

SIMED  will  process the  file  named  as if  given as the  first
command  and  exit  after  editing.   CONTINUE  will put SIMED in
command   mode,   expecting   further   commands.     START    or
START-<command-string> may also be used.

Just typing -
.SIMED

will - if extension is  .SIM -
then start SIMED  editing  the  last  TECO/SOS  edited  file  (by
reading  TMP:EDS)  using  default switches (possibly redefined in
SWITCH.INI).  Whenever possible, semicolon will be interpreted as
the  name  of  the file last edited.  If the file last edited was
X.SIM, the following commands will all have the same effect (i.e.
processing X.SIM) -
.SIMED;
.SIMED-;
.SIMED-;=;
.SIMED;=X
.SIMED;=;
.SIMED    (thus .SIMED is equivalent to .R SIMED; IF the
             extension was .SIM)

Exit from SIMED by entering ^Z or ^C.

Restrictions:

Input lines may not exceed 200 characters.

Split up lines will not be  indented  properly  if  they  contain
BEGIN or END.

Also, numerical constants containing blanks may  occasionally  be
improperly  split.  The programmer is recommended to start source
code lines with BEGIN and END resp.

Additional feature:

If a text constant includes <CR><LF> SIMED will ask the user  for
permission to continue, in order to prevent a possible messing up
of the file.  Otherwise if one  of  the  quotes  is  missing  all
subsequent   (correct)  text  constants  might  be  destroyed  by
Upper/lower case editing.   "Proper"  text  constants  containing
<CR><LF>  will  be changed to new concatenated text constants  as
now allowed in SIMULA.

Author:
Mats Ohlin, Swedish Research Institute of National Defence
FOA 1, Fack, S-104 50 STOCKHOLM 80, SWEDEN

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