Re: [OT] Perl to C Converter?

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:19:47 GMT

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:30:55 GMT, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
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> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:21:57 -0400, Robert Gamble <rob_gamble99@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 23:50:26 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:14:58 -0400, Robert Gamble
>>> <rob_gamble99@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:19:50 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> By-the-way: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> says that a perl2C program
>>>>> exists....
>>>>
>>>> There is something called perlcc, a google search will provide plenty
>>>> of insight. I don't know if it will help you though, I just "compiled"
>>>> a 31kB perl script into C and the result was 8MB of unreadable code.
>>>
>>> Yow.
>>>
>>> Not very well commented?
>>>
>>> :-))
>>>
>>>> Compiling the code resulted in a 3.5MB executable that dies
>>>> immediately. I think this requires Perl installed and it appears to
>>>> include the Perl source into the program. This program appears to be
>>>> fairly new and probably has a long way to go before it is very useful.
>>>>
>>>> Rob Gamble
>>>
>>> But this information is very useful.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Rob. It may well be that an html2ps app in C is the answer
>>> here and I have seen evidence that they exist.
>>>
>>> There's one called a2ps, but it isn't being maintained and requires
>>> netscape.
>>>
>>> AC
>>
>> How about this:
>> http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/index.php
>> http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/htmldoc
>>
>> Rob Gamble
>
>
> Package: htmldoc
> Priority: extra
> Section: web
> Installed-Size: 1508
> Maintainer: Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 1.8.14-1
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libfltk1, libjpeg62, libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), xlibs (>>
> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3)
> Filename: pool/main/h/htmldoc/htmldoc_1.8.14-1_i386.deb
> Size: 854002
> MD5sum: 6d393d0d1dbe2a9041b7df243d8ef2ed
> Description: HTML processor that generates indexed HTML, PS, and PDF.
> HTMLDOC is a program for writing documentation in HTML and producing
> indexed HTML, PostScript, or PDF output (with tables of contents).
> It supports most HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4.0 syntax, as well as GIF,
> JPEG, and PNG images.
>
>
> That sure does look promising, Rob. Thanks.
>
> I thought I had searched /var/lib/dpkg/available thoroughly, but there
> it was...
>
><slaps head>
>
><ouch>
>
>:-)
>
> Will let you know how it works on my simple HTML.
>

Right out of the box, it works very well.

Thanks again, Robert.

> Let's see: Su to root and run apt-get install htmldoc.
>
> I can handle that.
>
> AC
>
>
Keith: I didn't read your latest post to me. Duh.

(Sure are a lot of stupid people on the Usenet: They post something
abusive and then think that you are just going to go on reading
whatever they post after that...Sheeeesh!)

AC

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