Desperately need DOS ADA compiler over FTP!

Desperately need DOS ADA compiler over FTP!

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I desperately need a FTPable Ada compiler for a comparative programming
languages assignment.  Where can I find one?  I did an archie search and
found nothing of interest.

Thanks.

Jason Shantz, SFU CompSci/History                               jshantz@sfu.ca
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P.S.:  If there is a FAQ list that covers this sort of thing, I apologize.

Re: Desperately need DOS ADA compiler over FTP!

[Michael Feldman]

In article <jshantz.739349001@sfu.ca> jshantz@fraser.sfu.ca (Wiley) writes:
>I desperately need a FTPable Ada compiler for a comparative programming
>languages assignment.  Where can I find one?  I did an archie search and
>found nothing of interest.
>
Good news! Several nice Ada/Ed's are now available at WUARCHIVE. The 386/486
version I presume you are looking for is an enhanced version of NYU's original
Ada/Ed-C. At GWU we have added a Turbo-ish editor, character graphics and
math libraries (included with credit to their developers), a searchable
Language Reference Manual, and other such niceties. The executables are
available at WUARCHIVE in the directory languages/ada/adaed/gwu/dos.
See the sample anonymous ftp session with directory listings below.

A very preliminary port of Ada/Ed to (large) Macintoshes, developed by
Jacques Rouillard of Marseille, France, is in the directory
languages/ada/adaed/mac. See the doc file there for details. The
user interface is very nice and clever; the compiler has certain
stability problems which you can read about in the doc file.

These two distributions are in self-extracting archive form; the
archives are sized to fit on high-density diskettes if you wish
to download and redistribute them. They are free and freely 
distributable. 

The original NYU distributions are in languages/ada/adaed/nyu. The
(large) tar file contains the Unix sources; other files provide DOS
executables and sources as originally built by NYU.

The sources for the GWU DOS and Rouillard Mac systems will be made
available eventually, under GNU General Public License rules. Please
understand that we are not yet putting up the sources because both
systems are under very active development and we don't want horrible
version control problems.

In return for our putting these things on the anonymous archives, we
would very much appreciate your sending e-mail to mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu,
just to let us know you've become users. That will help us in our search
for funding to continue doing neat things like this and giving them away.

Good luck - have fun!

Mike Feldman
(sample ftp session follows my sig)
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Michael B. Feldman
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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
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ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu
Connected to wuarchive.wustl.edu.
220 wuarchive.wustl.edu FTP server (Version 2.1WU(2) Wed May 19 07:29:30 CDT 19
.
Name (wuarchive.wustl.edu:mfeldman): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-  If your FTP client crashes or hangs shortly after login please try
230-  using a dash (-) as the first character of your password.  This will
230-  turn off the informational messages that may be confusing your FTP
230-  client.
230-
230-  This system may be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The local
230-  time is Sun Jun  6 19:45:37 1993.
230-
230-  You are user number 100 out of a possible total of 250.
230-
230-  All transfers to and from wuarchive are logged.  If you don't like
230-  this then disconnect now!
230-
230-  Wuarchive is currently a DEC Alpha AXP 3000, Model 400.  Thanks to
230-  Digital Equipment Corporation for their generous support of wuarchive.
230-
230-Please read the file README
230-  it was last modified on Mon May 17 15:02:13 1993 - 20 days ago
230-Please read the file README.NFS
230-  it was last modified on Fri Feb 19 07:40:51 1993 - 107 days ago
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd languages/ada/adaed
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   4 20023    archive       512 Jun  5 15:14 gwu
drwxr-xr-x   2 20023    archive       512 Jun  5 12:39 nyu
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> cd gwu
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 20023    archive       512 Jun  5 15:13 dos
drwxr-xr-x   2 20023    archive       512 Jun  5 15:13 mac
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls dos
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 1664
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive      7027 Jun  5 13:19 gwadaed.doc
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive   1338136 Jun  5 11:51 gwadaed1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive    332503 Jun  5 13:23 gwadaed2.exe
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> ls mac
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 856
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive    707840 Jun  5 08:26 adaed.sea
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive     23432 Jun  5 13:52 adaedmac.doc
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive    120704 Jun  5 08:26 nyudemos.sea
ftp> cd adaed
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls nyu
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 5884
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive       923 Jun  3 12:49 README
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive      5589 Jun  3 12:49 README2
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive       171 Jun  3 14:00 README3
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive   3596288 Jun  3 12:49 adaed.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive    997635 Jun  3 13:00 adaedexe.zoo
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive   1279174 Jun  3 13:16 adaedsrc.zoo
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive     14955 Jun  3 13:25 dasc.com
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive     21996 Jun  3 13:26 readme.pc
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive       923 Jun  3 13:26 unpack.doc
-rw-r--r--   1 20023    archive     67192 Jun  3 13:27 zoo.exe