ptop
  
PTOP - Free Pascal source formatter
What follows below is the man page of 
ptop and the description of the
configuration file. If you have installed the man pages then you can view
them with the 
man command.
ptop(1)               ptop source beautifier              ptop(1)
NAME
       ptop - The FPC Pascal configurable source beautifier.
       Origin probably Pascal-TO-Pascal.
SYNOPSIS
       ptop[-v]  [-i  indent]  [-b  bufsize ][-c optsfile] infile
       outfile
Description
       ptop is a more or less configurable source beautifier  for
       pascal  sources,  and  specially the ones supported by FPC
       (which are more or less Turbo Pascal or Delphi 2.0 compat-
       ible).
       ptop  belongs  to  the  FPC utils package, which currently
       also contains ppdep , h2pas , ppudump and ppumove
Usage
       ptop basically reformats "infile" and outputs  the  result
       to  "outfile".  ituses a configuration file explained fur-
       ther below, and can generate a  default  configurationfile
       for you to edit. (not needed if you use the defaults)
Options
       -h     Writes a short description of these switches.
       -c     read  options from configuration file. A configura-
              tion file is not needed, ptop will revert to inter-
              nal defaults then. See also -g
       -i ident
              Sets  the  number  of  indent spaces used for BEGIN
              END; and other blocks.
       -b bufsize
              Sets the buffersize to bufsize. Default 255,  0  is
              considered non-valid and ignored.
       -v     be  verbose.  Currently  only outputs the number of
              lines read/written and some error messages.
       -g ptop.cfg
              Writes a default configuration file to be edited to
              the file ptop.cfg
       Try  to  play  with ptop and its configfile until you find
       the effect you desire. The configurability and  possibili-
       ties  of ptop are quite large compared to shareware source
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       beautifier found on e.g. SIMTEL.
Acknowledgements
       The writer of the program, Michael van Canneyt,  who  also
       helped out explaining the format of ptop.cfg.
       Questions/corrections      can      be      mailed      to
       fpc-devel@vekoll.saturnus.vein.hu
       Also thanks to the rest of the FPC development team.
       The program is a modernized (OOP, Streams,  Delphi  exten-
       sions) version based on a program by Peter Grogono, who in
       turn based his program on a Pascal pretty-printer  written
       by Ledgard, Hueras, and Singer.  See SIGPLAN Notices, Vol.
       12, No. 7, July 1977, pages  101-105,  and  PP.DOC/HLP.
       This version of PP developed under Pascal/Z V4.0 or later.
       Very minor modifications for Turbo Pascal made by  Willett
       Kempton  March 1984 and Oct 84.  Runs under 8-bit Turbo or
       16-bit Turbo.  Toad Hall tweak, rewrite for TP 5,  28  Nov
       89
SEE ALSO
       ptop config file
              ptop.cfg(5)
       Compiler
              ppc386(1)
       Other FPC utils
              ppdep(1) ppudump(1) ppumove(1) h2pas(1)
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