MS-DOS python

Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU)
Tue, 19 May 92 14:27:51 EDT

I started on compiling python for MS-DOS but have now
been moved to a Macintosh project, so I haven't had a
chance to get back to it.

I *did* need to truncate the "#include filename" filenames
to get anything to compile. [ With BORLAND C ]

Guido, here is the awk script I used, in case you want to fold it
into the distribution. Replaces all

#include longfilename.h with:

#ifdef __MSDOS__
#include longfile.h
#else
#include longfilename.h
#endif

It doesn't try to do anything with "#include <filename>", but all of
those occurances seem to be short enough names.
It does not look like truncation produces any duplicate names.

/^#[ \t]*include[ \t]*"[A-Za-z0-9]*/ { \
file = $2;
n = split( file, a, "." );
name = a[1];
ext = a[2];
if ( length( name ) < 10 ) {
print ;
}
else {
print "#ifdef __MSDOS__ ", "\t/*** Truncate file name ***/" ;
print $1, substr(name,0,9) "." ext;
print "#else";
print;
print "#endif","\t/*** MSDOS *** Truncate file name ***/" ;
}
}
! /^#[ \t]*include[ \t]*"[A-Za-z0-9]*/ { print }

Was this step *not* needed with MSC ( or whatever was used ) ?

Any other tips/problems noted ?
[ Otherwise, I've been busy learning ( but not liking C++ ). ]

- Steve Majewski