Frank:
Would the following modification just leave the names alone properly?
Yes, but it would leave them alone like the compiler stores them, i.e. first letter capitalized, the rest lower-case. That might not be what you want.
Definitely not!! This is silly because file names are case sensitive in Unix. Why not just leave the file names alone???????
It is planned to change this as soon as we've got the qualified identifiers working (before that, doing so would cause name space conflicts with libc).
I don't know what this means, but I'm puzzled why it is such a big deal. Names have scope in Pascal. So why can't all names in the code have the scope of the code and then there should be no way that there would be name space conflicts?! Why isn't this obvious to compiler writers?
Thanks for the instructions on using patch (it's simple!) but I realized that it is not good way to go because a version I provide to people would be quickly out of date, or I would be forced to keep patching the latest version (and eventually the patch would not work of course).
So either the option for simple file names goes into gpc or the molecular biologists using my programs won't use gpc. (p2c does work for people; gpc might be simpler if the name thing can be straightened out.)
(Do you really enjoy typing all the file names all the time??)
Tom
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