NAME

       ptop - The FPC Pascal configurable source beautifier.

       Origin probably Pascal-TO-Pascal.

SYNOPSIS

       ptop[-v][-iindent][-bbufsize][-coptsfile]<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 compatible).

       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 further 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 configuration file is not  needed,  ptop  will  revert  to
              internal 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
       possibilities of ptop are quite large compared to shareware source 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  extensions)  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)