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                    EPP V0.14b - Beta.  E Preprocessor.
             Copyright ©1993 Barry Wills.  All rights reserved.

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   HISTORY.
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    V0.02a - Released 9 May 93.
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    1.  Adding code to store file handles in the list and leave files open.
        This greatly reduces code size and process time, especially in
        processProcSections () which had to reopen files and read through
        the declarations.


    V0.03a - Released 11 May 93.
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    1.  Modified procedure getModule () to use a project's main program
        file as the starting point (instead of the separate directives
        file.)  The procedure then recursively descends into module
        declarations parsing the global declaration sections from the
        procedural sections into separate files.  The first file (specified
        on the command line) gets all the definitions and declarations, the
        second (temporary) file gets all procedures.  At the end of the
        program the temporary file is appended to the specified output file.

    2.  Runtime progress is sent to stdout.  The final output file is
        stripped of all comments (except those within procedure bodies), and
        some EPP module information is inserted at strategic locations.

    3.  Later occurrences of redundant modules are ignored.

    4.  Superfluous PROC main () procedures are omitted in all but the main
        module whose name is supplied as the command-line argument.  An E
        comment is inserted wherever this occurs.

    V0.04a - Released 13 May 93.
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    1.  Comment stripping did not work in all cases, leaving dangling open-
        and close-comments.  Decided to copy all comments since I had to
        track them anyway.

    2.  Quoted open- and close-comment symbols were being erroneously
        counted.  Implemented open- aod close-string and -character
        tabulators to fix this.  (Could have led to shitloads of misread
        literals.  Eesh!)

    V0.10b - Released 15 May 93.
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    1.  Removed from alpha status.

    V0.11b - Released 21 May 93.
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    1.  Optimized appendProcsToDefs () for speed.  Immense gain in speed
        achieved using buffered I/O instead of String I/O.


    V0.12b - Released 26 May 93.
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    1.  EPP did not recognize RAISE as a defs keyword.  Consequently, all
        modules beginning with a RAISE declaration aborted the process.

    2.  Removed the offending section that said "I don't know what to do
        with *token name*".  Now if EPP doesn't recognize a keyword in the
        defs section the line will just be written as is.

    3.  Tweeked procedures getModule () and copyDefs () to check for the
        two-character string ';\n' after returning from getModule ().  The
        sourceLine is trimmed after a return from getModule () because only
        a partial line would be processed (say, if we had the line:

            PMODULE 'mod1'; PMODULE 'mod2';

        the two statements are processed by calls to getModule ().  This
        would leave a semicolon at the end of the line, which was being
        printed alone on a line when the call to getModule () returned.
        (!@#$%)

    4.  Corrected serious oversight in copyProc () and getModule () that
        allowed quoted keyword 'PROC' to be erroneously recognized as the
        keyword PROC.  This surfaced while I was attempting to convert EPP
        to use PMODULE statements.

    5.  Converted EPP to use PMODULES.  This actually reduced the size of
        the executable since I had some duplication of code.

    6.  Prettied up comments a little.


    V0.13b - Released 30 May 93.
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    1.  Modified IO routines to speed up process.  This thing was just too
        sluggish!  A significant gain in speed was achieved.

    2.  Bug found in function copyProc ():  when a PMODULE containing only a
        one-line PROC was copied in the program locked up because it was too
        stupid to quit.  After examining the logic, I decided that it would
        be too involving to checking the syntax close enough to catch mis-
        matched PROC ... ENDPROC like I wanted too.  We'll just have to be
        careful.  Sorry!

    3.  Added switch to silence EPP progress messages.

    4.  Added switch to set input buffer size.  If you have the RAM, use a
        large buffer.

    5.  Added switch to increase the source line length.  This must be >=
        the input buffer size since a smaller line length could cause a
        keyword to be split.  The program is friendly where this is
        concerned:  it warns you if you transgress and will adjust the
        buffer if you agree to it.  (I may try to figure this out later if
        memory consumption turns out to be a problem.)


    V0.14b - Released 08 Jun 93.
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    1.  Removed the constraints on line length -vs- buffer size.  After
        close examination and much trying to break it, I decided the
        safeguard wasn't necessary.  There is now a mimimum of 20-byte
        file buffers and source lines, and NO MAXIMUM LIMIT.  So if you got
        the RAM, use it!  :-)

        This warning still stands:  line length must be large enough to
        accommodate the longest line of source.  If a line is split, a
        keyword or a comment delimiter could be missed, and your source
        output may be chewed.  :-(

    2.  Corrected token parser to recognize PROC main(), for all you guys
        out there who don't like typing unnecessary spaces.  |-)  Thanks to
        Son Le for finding this one.

    V1.0 - Released 14 Jun 93.
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    1.  Removed from beta status.

    2.  Added Turbo mode which simply copies the procs section of a module
        instead of parsing it to the end.  Massively improved speed.


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