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Compiles and prepares a compatibility mode Pascal/V program. Pascal/V is not part of the HP 3000 Series 900 Computer System Fundamental Operating Software and must be purchased separately. The native mode equivalent of this command is PASXLLK.

Syntax

PASCALPREP [textfile] [,progfile] [,listfile] [;INFO=quotedstring]

Parameters

textfile

Actual file designator of the input file from which the source program is read. This can be any ASCII input file. Formal file designator is PASTEXT. Default is $STDIN. $STDIN is the current input device, usually your terminal.

PASTEXT cannot be backreferenced as an actual file designator in the command parameter list. For further information, refer to the "Implicit FILE Commands for Subsystems" discussion of the FILE command.

progfile

Actual file designator of the program file to which the prepared program segments are written. When progfile is omitted, the MPE segmenter creates the program file, which is stored in the temporary file domain as $OLDPASS. If you do create your own program file, you must do so in one of two ways:

  • By using the MPE/iX BUILD command, and specifying a file code of 1029 or PROG, and a numextents value of 1. This file is then used by the PREP command.

  • By specifying a nonexistent file in the progfile parameter, in which case a job/session temporary file of the correct size and type is created.

listfile

Actual file designator of the file to which the program listing is written. This can be any ASCII output file. Formal file designator is PASLIST. Default is $STDLIST. $STDLIST is usually your terminal if you are running Pascal/V interactively, or the printer if you are running a batch job.

PASLIST cannot be backreferenced as an actual file designator in the command parameter list. For further information, refer to the "Implicit FILE Commands for Subsystems" discussion of the FILE command.

quotedstring

A sequence of characters between two single quotation marks (apostrophes) or between two double quotation marks. You may use the delimiter as part of the string so long as the delimiter appears twice. Any occurrence of two single or two double quotation marks in a row is considered part of the string, and, therefore, not the terminating delimiter. INFO=quotedstring is used in the Pascal programming language to pass initial compiler options to a program. Pascal/V brackets the quotedstring with dollar signs and places it before the first line of source code in the text file.

Operation Notes

The PASCALPREP command compiles and prepares a compatibility mode Pascal/V program into a program file on disk. If you do not specify textfile, MPE/iX expects input from the current input device. If you do not specify listfile, MPE/iX sends the listing output to the formal file designator PASLIST (default $STDLIST). The USL file $OLDPASS, created during compilation, is a temporary file passed directly to the MPE segmenter. You may access it only if you do not use the default for progfile. This is because the MPE segmenter also uses $OLDPASS to store the prepared program segments, overwriting any existing temporary file of the same name.

Use

This command may be issued from a session, job, or program. It may not be used in BREAK. Pressing Break suspends the execution of this command. Entering the RESUME command continues the execution.

Examples

The following example compiles and prepares a Pascal/V program entered through your standard input device, and stores the prepared program segments in the file $OLDPASS. The listing is printed on your standard list device.

  PASCALPREP

To compile and prepare a Pascal/V source program from the source file PASCSRC, store it in PASCPROG, and send the listing to your standard list device, enter:

  PASCALPREP PASCSRC,PASCPROG

Related Information

Commands

PASCALGO, PASCAL, PASXL, PASXLGO, PASXLLK PREP, RUN, LINK, LINKEDIT

Manuals

MPE Segmenter Reference Manual

Pascal/3000 Reference Manual

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