Walnut Creek Ada CDROM

Ada-Belgium wishes to thank Walnut Creek CDROM for their support of our activities by donating a copy of their June 1995 Ada CDROM 2 disk set.

The July 1994 Ada CDROM

If you like what you see here, you might consider purchasing your personal copy directly (see also below for more information).

[ We still have some copies of the November 1994 Edition of the Ada CDROM that are freely available together with an Ada-Belgium membership registration for 1995. See the Membership Application Form for more information. ]

Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 07:24:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Prof R Conn 
Subject: June 95 Edition of Walnut Creek Ada CDROM
To: pal-public@wunet.wustl.edu
Cc: ada-aware@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us,
    sigada-elected@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us, team_ada@acm.org

Hello, Everyone,

I am delighted to announce that the June 1995 edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM is now available! This CDROM, which is a complete copy of the Public Ada Library (PAL), is approximately 1.3G bytes (compressed) in size -- over 100M bytes larger than the previous March 1995 edition -- and is still a 2-CDROM set (just barely). More than a thousand files have changed since the March 1995 edition.

The CDROM contains the collective works of hundreds (if not thousands) of members of the Ada community. It is OUR ambassador, acting in many ways to promote Ada83 and Ada95 within and without the Ada community. I am pleased to note that the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) has purchased copies of this CDROM for all DoD Research Labs. The AJPO has also purchased copies for all attendees at the Ada and Software Engineering Education Team (ASEET) Symposium this month, while SIGAda has purchased copies for the attendees at the Washington Ada Symposium 1995 at the end of this month. SIGAda has been using the previous editions in its Ada promotion effort and will continue the effort with this new edition. Of course, copies are also available from Walnut Creek itself and through bookstores in many countries.

This Ada CDROM contains a new access mechanism from the previous editions: HTML. All of the catalogs you are used to from the previous editions are still there, but added is a complete copy of the PAL Card Catalog in HTML, suitable for browsing using Mosaic and Netscape. This catalog contains almost 600 HTML files and allows you to easily locate items on the CDROM as well as transfer them from the CDROM to your local disks.

More information follows. Enjoy using the PAL and the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM!

Rick Conn
PAL Manager

Welcome to the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM! This CDROM is a complete copy of the Public Ada Library (PAL) as of 28 April 1995.

There are almost 600 different items on this CDROM, such as the GNAT Ada compiler (versions 2.03 and 2.04), the SEI's Capability Maturity Model, and the AdaSAGE development platform. There are four ways to easily find things on this CDROM:

Walk the ada/index.html.
Print out and use the PAL Catalog . This is a catalog of all the items on the CDROM, organized by a taxonomy with an index. For each item, you will find information about the author, certification, copyright and release notes, an abstract, the name of the directory containing the item and a listing of the files associated with the item, and other information. The PAL Catalog is almost 2,000 pages long.
Use the interactive PAL Card Catalog. It contains all the information in the PAL Catalog, but it makes the information available for scanning online. The PAL Card Catalog is available in two forms: an Ada program with data files and hypertext (HTML).
The Ada program form is in source code and has already been compiled for and is ready to run under MSDOS. To use the Ada form, the file qstart.txt is provided as a short, about 10 minute, tutorial that you can print out and then use to run the PAL Card Catalog program.
The hypertext form is ready to run using Mosaic, Netscape, or any other World Wide Web client program. The hypertext form is composed of almost 600 HTML files.

You will find these items in the following locations:

  PAL Catalog (in ASCII and Postscript)
    ada/userdocs/catalog    See the README and other files here

  PAL Card Catalog
    ada/toolkit/all/CARDCAT.ZIP             Source code and data files in Ada
    ada/toolkit/msdos/cardcat/ccat_pc.zip   Precompiled to run under MSDOS
    ada/toolkit/msdos/cardcat/runme         CD to here and run CARDCAT to run
                                              precompiled version directly
                                              from the CDROM; also, the GO.BAT
                                              file runs this from the top
                                              level of the CDROM; see the file
                                              qstart.txt for instructions on
                                              how to use this program
    ada/userdocs/html/cardcat/00_Tax.html   PAL Card Catalog in HTML

  Browsing the CDROM using the World Wide Web
    ada/pal.html      PAL home page
    ada/pal2.html     Shorter PAL home page
    ada/index.html    Directory walker

The following are key items you should look at to become familiar with this CDROM and the PAL. For each item, I've named the directory in which it can be found, the file names (if appropriate), and a brief description of the item.

Key Topic Areas
  Introductory Documents
    ada    00README   Read Me!
    ada    0MANIFEST  Manifest

  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    ada/userdocs/html  PAL_FAQ.html   PAL FAQ in Hypertext
    ada                0FAQ           PAL FAQ in ASCII Text

  PAL and CDROM Animated Shows Ready to Run under MSDOS
  Note: these shows are somewhat entertaining and informative, but, they
  tend to get out of date.  The size numbers of the various items in the
  PAL were true at one time but are likely to be out of date by now.

    ada/userdocs/palshow    Show on the PAL
    ada/userdocs/cdshows    Various shows on the CDROM
    SHOW.BAT                Runs the show in ada/userdocs/palshow

Major Categories
    ada/compiler       Ada Compilers
    ada/benchmrk       Benchmarks
    ada/bindings       Bindings
    ada/comm           Communications
    ada/crsware        Courseware
    ada/db             Database Management Tools
    ada/distproc       Distributed Processing
    ada/doctools       Documentation Development Tools
    ada/docs           Documents
    ada/misc           Miscellaneous Tools
    ada/mgttools       Project Management Tools
    ada/swcomps        Software Components
    ada/swtools        Software Development Tools
    ada/testing        Testing Support
    ada/userdocs       User Documentation (includes PAL activity logs,
                         information that makes up the PAL FAQ, information
                         on copyright and its meaning, information on using
                         the Internet)
    ada/toolkit        User Toolkit (includes versions of ZIP, TAR, and
                         other tools to extract the files on the CDROM
                         for various platforms; also includes Mosaic for
                         Microsoft Windows)

Ada95 Documents in Hypertext (HTML)
  ada/docs/adarm95/rm95html-1.0    rm9x-toc.html        Ada95 Reference Manual
  ada/docs/adarat95/html           rat95-contents.html  Ada95 Rationale
  ada/crsware/lovelace/html        lovelace.html        Lovelace Ada95 Tutorial
  ada/ajpo/docs/adopt-hbk/95adopt/html   toc.html       Ada95 Adoption Handbook

Mirrors and Copies
  ada/ajpo             Ada Information Clearinghouse mirror
  ada/asr              Ada Software Repository copy
  ada/sage             AdaSAGE Project mirror
  ada/compiler/gnat    GNU NYU Ada95 Translator (GNAT) Project mirror
  ada/sei              Software Engineering Institute mirror
  vhdl                 VHDL Repository mirror

Enjoy using this CDROM and the PAL!

Richard Conn
Manager, PAL

This is a TWO DISC set. The second CDROM contains AdaSAGE and VHDL. The first CDROM contains everything else.

This CDROM is in ISO-9660 Format, with Rock Ridge extensions. If your system supports the Rock Ridge extensions, you can access the files using the original Unix-style filenames. If you system does not support Rock Ridge, you will see the filenames truncated to MSDOS style 8+3 filenames. Each directory contains a file named "00_trans.tbl" that translates the original filenames to the shortened names. For MSDOS, the "VIEW.EXE" utility will translate these names for you automatically. Just run "VIEW.EXE" in the top directory of the CDROM.

This CDROM comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee. If you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return it for a full refund.

If you have any questions about this CDROM, or if you would like a list of other titles published by Walnut Creek CDROM, please write or call:

        Walnut Creek CDROM
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        1547 Palos Verdes Mall
        Walnut Creek CA  94596
        USA

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         1 800 731-7177 (Toll Free Tech Support)
        +1 510 674-0783 (Sales)
        +1 510 603-1234 (Tech Support)
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        Email: orders@cdrom.com (Orders)
        Email: info@cdrom.com (Information)
        Email: support@cdrom.com (Tech Support)
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        FTP:   ftp.cdrom.com

The following lists the key directories and their approximate sizes (in K bytes) for the June 1995 edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM. The top-level directory is shown for each disc, and the top of the ada and vhdl trees on each disk are also shown.

*****************************************************
Disc 1 - Top-Level Directory and ada Tree

 Size K File or Directory Name
======= ======================
      2 /cdrom/00_TRANS.TBL
     22 /cdrom/00_index.txt
    230 /cdrom/00global.txt
     38 /cdrom/0FAQ
      2 /cdrom/GO.BAT
     10 /cdrom/README.TXT
      2 /cdrom/SHOW.BAT
623,710 /cdrom/ada/
      2 /cdrom/cdrom.cfg
  3,450 /cdrom/docs/
    318 /cdrom/filename.txt
    610 /cdrom/ls-lR
  2,048 /cdrom/utils/
    176 /cdrom/view.exe

 Size K File or Directory Name
 ====== ======================
     10 /cdrom/ada/00README
      2 /cdrom/ada/00_TRANS.TBL
      2 /cdrom/ada/00_index.txt
     38 /cdrom/ada/0FAQ
      4 /cdrom/ada/0MANIFEST
      6 /cdrom/ada/README
297,744 /cdrom/ada/ajpo/
      8 /cdrom/ada/aseet/
 16,666 /cdrom/ada/asr/
    138 /cdrom/ada/benchmrk/
  7,520 /cdrom/ada/bindings/
    360 /cdrom/ada/comm/
113,308 /cdrom/ada/compiler/
 18,880 /cdrom/ada/crsware/
  1,996 /cdrom/ada/db/
      4 /cdrom/ada/dirs.txt
    642 /cdrom/ada/distproc/
 75,608 /cdrom/ada/docs/
    780 /cdrom/ada/doctools/
      4 /cdrom/ada/index.html
    418 /cdrom/ada/mgttools/
  3,546 /cdrom/ada/misc/
      8 /cdrom/ada/pal.html
      4 /cdrom/ada/pal2.html
  5,826 /cdrom/ada/swcomps/
 29,710 /cdrom/ada/swtools/
    582 /cdrom/ada/team_ada/
  2,708 /cdrom/ada/testing/
 16,126 /cdrom/ada/toolkit/
 31,058 /cdrom/ada/userdocs/

*****************************************************
Disc 2 - Top-Level Directory, ada Tree, and vhdl Tree

 Size K File or Directory Name
 ====== ======================
      2 /cdrom/00_TRANS.TBL
     14 /cdrom/00_index.txt
     84 /cdrom/00global.txt
     38 /cdrom/0FAQ
      2 /cdrom/GO.BAT
     10 /cdrom/README.TXT
567,412 /cdrom/ada/
      2 /cdrom/cdrom.cfg
  3,450 /cdrom/docs/
    138 /cdrom/filename.txt
    220 /cdrom/ls-lR
  2,048 /cdrom/utils/
  7,726 /cdrom/vhdl/
    176 /cdrom/view.exe

 Size K File or Directory Name
 ====== ======================
     10 /cdrom/ada/00README
      2 /cdrom/ada/00_TRANS.TBL
      2 /cdrom/ada/00_index.txt
     38 /cdrom/ada/0FAQ
      4 /cdrom/ada/0MANIFEST
      6 /cdrom/ada/README
      4 /cdrom/ada/dirs.txt
      4 /cdrom/ada/index.html
473,908 /cdrom/ada/sage
 93,420 /cdrom/ada/sei

 Size K File or Directory Name
 ====== ======================
      4 /cdrom/vhdl/00README
      2 /cdrom/vhdl/00_TRANS.TBL
      2 /cdrom/vhdl/00_index.txt
     14 /cdrom/vhdl/00index
      2 /cdrom/vhdl/RECENT.DAY
      6 /cdrom/vhdl/RECENT.WEEK
  2,072 /cdrom/vhdl/analog/
     16 /cdrom/vhdl/compose/
  1,640 /cdrom/vhdl/cookbook/
    206 /cdrom/vhdl/februno/
     40 /cdrom/vhdl/general/
      2 /cdrom/vhdl/index.txt
    558 /cdrom/vhdl/models/
     38 /cdrom/vhdl/packages/
     34 /cdrom/vhdl/petri/
     36 /cdrom/vhdl/queue/
    382 /cdrom/vhdl/tools/
  2,642 /cdrom/vhdl/validation/
     26 /cdrom/vhdl/vhdl-93/

--
Richard Conn, PAL Manager  |  conn@wuarchive.wustl.edu
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