Re: Need help bad!!!!!

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <54u8m2$ko1@news.cdsnet.net>, amolthan@cdsnet.net (BlacKnight) writes:

> 	I have a linked list lab I've been working on for college.

Some of the professors who read this list can correct me, but it seems
to me that your school should establish some sort of lab assistance
program for getting help rather than blasting messages across the whole
Internet.

> gnat.io. None of this works. If anyone has some help, please post or
> email me at : amolthan@cdsnet.net

When you find that local resource, you probably want to show them your
program, rather than just describing your symptoms.

Looking at your description, however, the one think which strikes me
is how many instances  you have of the number "20", both for your goal
and for your "symptoms".  Independent of whether you are using Ada or
Pascal or Cobol, I bet that if you changed the program from "20" to "17"
you would see that your symptoms also changed from "20" to "17".  That
experiment may be worth investigating.  The Ada language goes a long
way toward detecting most errors with the compiler, but still there
will always be problems such as yours where experimenting with the
program and rereading the Ada Reference Manual are required.  After all,
the behaviour you describe sounds pretty good if your goal were to read
20-column punched cards, and I bet I know how to make it work with the
more traditional 80 column cards :-)

Larry Kilgallen