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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units Message-ID: <2202@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 4 Oct 90 01:55:54 GMT References: <589@censun1.UUCP> <2190@sparko.gwu.edu> <2152@enea.se> Reply-To: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu () Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. List-Id: In article <2152@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes: > >I can only agree. I don't if it has anything to with the O/S, but >it seems like every Unix compiler I have met, not only Ada compilers, >has some suffix you must use - and provide each time. Coming from >the VMS world I find this strange. The normal file type for Ada >files is .ADA, and if you use it you have to tell that to the >compiler, but if you prefer .FOR you can do so. Meridian AdaVantage for Unix will, I think, accept any filetype (but of course it must be supplied explicitly). I have not tried to break it, but it accepts ahny filetype I'd ever use for an Ada file... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Michael Feldman Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 202-994-5253 mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------