Draft pre-standard ASIS 1.0A is available for anonymous FTP

Draft pre-standard ASIS 1.0A is available for anonymous FTP

[Gary Barnes]

The Ada Semantic Interface Specification is a layered
vendor-independent open architecture.  ASIS queries and services
provide a consistent interface to information within an Ada Program
Library.  Clients of ASIS are shielded and free from the
implementation details of each Ada vendor's proprietary library and
intermediate representation.

The latest working draft for ASIS is ASIS 1.0A, dated December 1992.
The ASIS Working Group (ASISWG), under sponsorship of the AJPO,
intends to evolve this working draft into an ISO standard
complementing the Ada 9X standard.  The current ASIS working draft is
based on Ada 83.  Your comments are welcome, if you want to see
replies to your comments, please join the email discussion group
first.

There is an electronic mail discussion forum for the ASISWG:

        asis@stars.reston.paramax.com

This forum is also where announcements of ASISWG meetings will appear.
To have your email address added to this forum, send email to

        asis-request@stars.reston.paramax.com

Include your preferred email address, name, telephone number, and
surface mail address.

ASIS 1.0A is avaiable for anonymous FTP from ajpo.sei.cmu.edu.  It is
available in the public/asis directory as asis_1.0A.

If you have Internet FTP access, run your FTP program, your log might
look something like this:

        $ ftp ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
        Name (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:you): anonymous
        331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
        Password:you@your-company.com
        ftp> cd public/asis
        ftp> get asis_1.0A
        200 PORT command successful.
        150 Opening data connection for asis_1.0A (130.213.1.2,2614) (611652
        bytes).
        ....
        ftp> bye

If you do not have Internet FTP access, send this mail message
message, with no Subject: line, to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com:

        reply you@your-company.com
        connect ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
        binary
        compress
        uuencode
        chdir public/asis
        get asis_1.0A
        quit

ASIS 1.0A will arrive in your email.  It will arrive in pieces.
Concatenate the pieces (they are numbered), run them through uudecode,
then uncompress them.  If you don't have compress, leave out the
compress line in the message.  If you don't have uudecode, leave out
the uuencode line in the message.