From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,680defdd64d3300 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:07:11 -0600 From: David Botton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:07:11 -0500 Message-ID: <2004112218071116807%david@bottoncom> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Help on Package_Name User-Agent: Unison/1.5.2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.176.74.83 X-Trace: sv3-t9Gt776ES71fYjlyx161VLJPWn3JZdu6a/bFbJlS0JWwEq+GJrDu47GjhSAcJrOsjmT/JKeLcKcXk08!ZbN17UsK1/XHODxd988BJoU5Zhx8k+AIR9UKZl+wm40YBxYNFWAd7O7RNp2i1w== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6346 Date: 2004-11-22T18:07:11-05:00 List-Id: I recommend to help you get started to take a look at http://www.adapower.com You will find the Ada FAQ there, free Ada books, and the Source Code Treasury with examples of how to do various tasks in Ada. The student_io package is a package provided by the author of the book you are using. See if it came with a CD. David Botton http://www.adapower.com On 2004-11-21 11:59:27 -0500, 19owls <19@owls.org> said: > Hi. It's my first day with Ada. heard many wonderful things about it. > i'm not studying programming, but i've done basic C before. > obviously i've read and managed to compile the infamous > Hello World! > > i have a beginners book on Ada, it keeps referring to student_io package > name for the exercises and examples which is not known to gnat. i need to > know what package name to use whilst handling text, calculations,strings > and so on beyond text_io (which handles strings only i suppose). > > in future how do i know of the list of package names to use and what it is > for? thanks.