From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 25 Feb 93 15:19:28 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gw u.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Ada/Ed problems Message-ID: <1993Feb25.151928.20746@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article <1993Feb25.093047.17393@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> labenrsa@ICIL64.CILEA.IT writes: > >Have you ever used Ada/Ed by NYU ? Yes, quite a bit. > >Well, i consider it a really interesting software but ...last week i tried to >install it on my PC and it gave this problem : > >after creation of a simple example (like "hello world") i typed : > > adaed -n -l testlib prova ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- I think you mean "adacomp" > >well, the risult was : > unable to open file c:\adaed\predef.axq for reading > Ada/Ed Internal error(SEM) for prova > >Let me note that in prova.lis no errors were detected and all operations >in autoexec.bat have been done. But you did not tell us which things were in your autoexec. I would be willing to bet that you didn't set up the environment variable. The message is telling you that the library file for the predefined libraries could not be found. >The DOS current release is 5.0 and the pc is a 386 DX (4 Mb RAM). This is not the problem. It is somewhere in your setup. > >I reported this problem to adaed@cs.nyu.edu two times but WITHOUT ANY RESPONSE . They are busy working on GNAT these days and don't respond much to Ada/Ed e-mail. > >If you fixed this problem or if you know another Ada interpeter/compiler for >pc available on anonymous ftp account... Check your documentation and make sure your setup is OK. Also, if you copied Ada/Ed from a colleague, make sure you got all the files. The directory containing the Ada/Ed executables should also contain predef.axq predef.lib predef.trc > This is the only Ada system available by ftp. Let me know by e-mail if this is helpful. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "The most important thing is to be sincere, and once you've learned how to fake that, you've got it made." -- old show-business adage ------------------------------------------------------------------------