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Date: 5 Nov 91 04:51:58 GMT
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hercules!plummer@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Dave Plummer)
Subject: Re: Looking for a UNIX Ada Compiler...
Message-ID: <1991Nov5.045158.541@regina.cs.uregina.ca>
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In article <1991Nov4.065257.29829@milton.u.washington.edu> mfeldman@milton.u.wa
shington.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>In article <1991Nov4.044016.7314@regina.cs.uregina.ca> plummer@hercules.cs.ure
gina.ca (Dave Plummer) writes:
>>I'm looking for a freely distributrable Ada compiler that will run under
>>BSD4.3 or SYSV.  There is one for MS-DOS, so I suppose it's not _impossible_ 
>>to hope there's a PD or shareware system for Unix.  We have a good VMS
>>version here, but I'm much more comfortable under Unix, so I thought maybe...
>>
>The only "freely-distributable" Ada compilers I am aware of for DOS are
>a couple of toys, one of which was written by me and some students. We
>don't pretend it's Ada, though. If you know of a PD Ada compiler for DOS,
>please let me know. Are you sure the compiler you're thinking of
>isn't a pirate copy of a commercial product? Or just a toy?
>
To clear this up, I downloaded a very old version of Janus/Ada (1982) from
a local BBS, which appeared to a demo version of Janus.  I haven't gotten
it to actually _compile_ anything (barfs on use... oh well!).  I didn't
mean to imply it was free or even shareware.  The distribution I received
is incomplete.  I don't know if this is legit or not.  In any event, I'm
going back to our nice, paid-for, non-questionable VaxAda, and promising
myself I'll get used to LSE...

- Dave