ARPAVAX:UNKNOWN:G:antares (11/02/82)
At the request of a fellow network member, I am posting this followup on a request I made earlier for Bliss compilers running under Unix. The results: nothing. Nobody, including the people at Carnegie Mellon, knows of any version of Bliss which runs on a non-DEC operating system. The best that can be done is to have Bliss generate Macro code and move that code onto a Unix machine to compile and link there. Apparently, Bliss does not do any fancy stuff with Macro, so the conversion to `as' or some such thing may not be so difficult. I am working on a Macro and `as' translator and will advise in this space if it ever gets working -- it is low priority on my list, however, so it may be some time. Note that there are versions of Macro which run under Unix, for the pdp-11. I am working on something for the VAX (SRI has a translator going from `as' to Macro, but not the reverse, to my best knowledge -- it comes with Eunice). If anyone should come up with any leads, please do let me know. Harry Weeks ARPAnet: G.antares@Berkeley LBLG!Harry#pdm@LBL-Unix UUCP: ...!ucbvax!G:antares Voice: FTS 451-4354 (415) 486-4354 Messages: (415) 642-0731
thomas (11/02/82)
Unilogic (the Scribe people) apparently have a Bliss-to-C translator. Whether they are willing to let it out (i.e., sell it) is another question. =Spencer
aps (11/09/82)
Wow. Bliss to C translater?? ISAM files for UNIX, here we come!! I can finally port RMS to UNIX!!! aps.