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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)px.1        6.2 (Berkeley) 5/12/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH PX 1 "May 12, 1986"
        !             8: .UC
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: px \- Pascal interpreter
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B px
        !            13: [ obj [ argument ... ] ]
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Px
        !            16: interprets the abstract machine code generated by
        !            17: .I pi.
        !            18: The first argument is the file to be interpreted, and defaults
        !            19: to
        !            20: .IR obj \|;
        !            21: remaining arguments are available to the Pascal program using the
        !            22: built-ins
        !            23: .I argv
        !            24: and
        !            25: .I argc.
        !            26: .I Px
        !            27: is also invoked by
        !            28: .I pix
        !            29: when running `load and go'.
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: If the program terminates abnormally an error message and a 
        !            32: control flow backtrace are printed.
        !            33: The number of statements executed and total execution time
        !            34: are printed after normal termination.
        !            35: The
        !            36: .B p
        !            37: option of
        !            38: .I pi
        !            39: suppresses all of this except the message indicating the cause
        !            40: of abnormal termination.
        !            41: .SH FILES
        !            42: .DT
        !            43: obj            default object file
        !            44: .br
        !            45: pmon.out       profile data file
        !            46: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            47: Berkeley Pascal User's Manual
        !            48: .br
        !            49: pi(1), pix(1)
        !            50: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            51: Most run-time error messages are self-explanatory.
        !            52: Some of the more unusual ones are:
        !            53: .HP 6
        !            54: Reference to an inactive file
        !            55: .br
        !            56: A file other than
        !            57: .I input
        !            58: or
        !            59: .I output
        !            60: was used before a call to
        !            61: .I reset
        !            62: or
        !            63: .I rewrite.
        !            64: .HP 6
        !            65: Statement count limit exceeded
        !            66: .br
        !            67: The limit of 500,000 executed statements
        !            68: (which prevents excessive looping or recursion)
        !            69: has been exceeded.
        !            70: .HP 6
        !            71: Bad data found on integer read
        !            72: .br
        !            73: .ns
        !            74: .HP 6
        !            75: Bad data found on real read
        !            76: .br
        !            77: Usually, non-numeric input was found for a number.
        !            78: For reals, Pascal requires digits before and after the decimal
        !            79: point so that numbers like `.1' or `21.' evoke the second diagnostic.
        !            80: .HP 6
        !            81: panic:
        !            82: .I  "Some message"
        !            83: .br
        !            84: Indicates an internal inconsistency detected in
        !            85: .I px
        !            86: probably due to a Pascal system bug.
        !            87: .SH AUTHORS
        !            88: Charles B. Haley, William Joy, and Ken Thompson
        !            89: .br
        !            90: VAX-11 version by Kirk McKusick
        !            91: .SH BUGS
        !            92: Post-mortem traceback is not limited;
        !            93: infinite recursion leads to almost infinite traceback.

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