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From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Subject: Free Software using AdaEd (Announcement)
Summary: Packages available by ftp to run under AdaEd
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 17:17:13 GMT
Announcement of goodies available by ftp from
ftp.cs.man.ac.uk:/pub/chl/LEDGER
Packages available by ftp to run under AdaEd
This is an attempt to demonstrate that free software written in Ada is a
practical proposition. It is based on the free AdaEd interpreted Ada system
available from NYU.
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The Ledger program. This is an accounting system using conventional
double-entry bookeeping, with a nice WIMP interface.
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X/Intrinsics/OLIT binding for AdaEd. Sorry, the OLIT bit is not
free, but bindings for other toolkits could easily be added by the
adventurous.
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Purgatory. A package of UNIX interface routines for AdaEd. Direct
access to UNIX read/write, forks, pipes, etc.
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Various bug-fixes for AdaEd; also the wherewithal to compile it
under Solaris 2.n.
Generally, each item in the above list requires the ones below it in the
list (so hopefully my intrinsics/OLIT package will be of use, even if you do
not want my Ledger program).
The ftp directory /pub/chl/LEDGER contains sub-directories for all the items
listed, each with a README explaining what is on offer, what it requires,
where to get it (notably AdaEd itself), etc. The whole lot carries a GNU
Copyleft.
Retrieve and enjoy!
Note Followup to comp.lang.ada.
--
Charles H. Lindsey -------------------------------------------------------------
At Home, doing my own thing. Internet: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Voice: +44 161 437 4506 Janet: chl@uk.ac.man.cs.clw
Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave., CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. UUCP: mucs!clerew!chl
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 10:22:39 EST
From: Brad Balfour
To: sigada-interest@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
Cc: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch, conn@wuarchive.wustl.edu
Subject: Tri-Ada 94 Advanced Prgm available via ftp
I have now made the Tri-Ada 94 Advanced Program (ascii e-mail version)
available on the ACM's machine. It can be accessed several ways:
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FTP:
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connect to acm.org
-- NOTE: this is a VMS machine and uses different syntax;
change directory to DISK4:[anonymous.sig_forums.sigada];
get the file Tri_Ada_94_Adv_Prgm.txt;
or simply issue a get command for the file
DISK4:[anonymous.sig_forums.sigada]Tri_Ada_94_Adv_Prgm.txt
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GOPHER:
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gopher users can access the file by going to:
gopher://gopher.acm.org/11[the_files.sig_forums.sigada]
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WWW:
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Point your browser to the following URL:
http://info.acm.org
Then simply click on the pointer to SIGAda
--
Brad Balfour
ACM SIGAda Secretary
bbalfour@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
bbalfour@acm.org
(703) 824-4505
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 09:53:37 MST
From: Skip Carter
Subject: literature citations
I recently made some Ada code available for calculating pseudo-random
numbers using the algorithm R250.
The literature references for the algorithm are:
Kirkpatrick, S., and E. Stoll, 1981; A Very Fast Shift-Register
Sequence Random Number Generator, Journal of Computational Physics,
V. 40.
Maier, W.L., 1991; A Fast Pseudo Random Number Generator,
Dr. Dobb's Journal, May, pp. 152 - 157
The code can be accessed
through anonymous FTP
at taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil in pub/Ada.
Or through WWW at:
http://taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil/skips_home.html
Everett (Skip) Carter Phone: 408-656-3318 FAX: 408-656-2712
Naval Postgraduate School INTERNET: skip@taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil
Dept. of Oceanography, Code OC/CR UUCP: ...!uunet!taygeta!skip
Monterey, CA. 93943 TELEMAIL: s.carter/omnet
WWW: http://taygeta.oc.nps.navy.mil/skips_home.html
From: matwood@labhp27.cs.utah.edu (Mark Atwood)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada
Subject: WWW page of MIL-STD-2167A
Date: 17 Jul 1994 22:26:49 GMT
Organization: University of Utah College of Engineering
I've put an WWW HTML page of
MIL-STD-2167A
on the Web. The URL is
http://www.cs.utah.edu/people/ugrad/matwood/.public_html/2167a.html.
This file was hand build from a hardcopy. I know it's not fully complete
yet. For example, it currently lacks the figurers. I haven't put up any
of the DIDs yet either. There may be other omissions, typos or errors.
If you find any, email me and I'll try to get around to fixing them.
Mark Atwood
matwood@peruvian.cs.utah.edu
From: weberwu@tfh-berlin.de (Prof_Weber-Wulff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Mouse package for Meridian Ada available
Date: 10 Jun 1994 07:57:40 GMT
Organization: TFH-Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
Someone asked a while back for a mouse package for Ada. A student
of mine, Dimitri Bragin, has spent his free time preparing
a color menuing and mouse system for Meridian Ada on PCs.
It is in the public domain, i.e. use it, give it to a friend, but don't
sell it, and no guarantee for anything. We've put it on our gopher
server at
URL: gopher://sun12.tfh-berlin.de:70/11/Labore/PRG-Lab/maus-stuff
So point your gophers here and enjoy. He's included a demo programm
for using the menu and mouse packages.
Debora Weber-Wulff, Professorin fuer Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen
snail: Technische Fachhochschule Berlin, FB Informatik,
Luxemburgerstr. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany
email: weberwu@tfh-berlin.de
From: mjs@netcom.com (Mark Schimmel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: cbind - C to Ada bindings generator
Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 20:00:33 GMT
Announcing
cbind.
This tool reads C source and produces Ada
bindings to what it read. This is the first revision of the
tool and it contains errors and lacks many features. Please
expect to have to do some editing before the output will compile.
I believe the tool to be useful even in this rough state and
hope to work out the bugs and add features as I receive your
feedback.
You can retrieve the source from the
anonymous ftp server at rational.com
in the
directory public/tools/cbind.
From: marc@SEI.CMU.EDU (Marc Graham)
To: ABWG@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
Subject: Material for the ADa SQL interface
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 11:51:08 EDT
Folks-
I've made
documents about the SQL interface to Ada9X
available for anonymous ftp. The machine is
ftp.sei.cmu.edu
and the directory is
pub/marc/Ada9xSQLPapers
Check the README file for details.
The documents present the issues involved in upgrading the interface.
In particular, there's no copy of the 9x LRM nor the SQL2 standard in
that directory. (For the 9x LRM, see the
ajpo machine
or Magnus Kempe's
totally neat hypertext version
on the web. I don't know of any electronic copy of the SQL standard.)
Marc H. Graham Software Engineering Institute
marc@sei.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University
(412) 268 7784 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Dirk Craeynest
(Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Ada-Belgium Newsletter Editor
& Team Ada
Free Software using AdaEd