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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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