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From: lance@eco.twg.com (Lance Kibblewhite)
Subject: Re: The NT port of GNAT 3.09
Date: 1997/01/29
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kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:

>In article <dewar.854358699@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>>successfully runs all but one or two tests in the ACVC suite.
>
>More precisely, all but 6, one of which is likely hitting the linker
>bug Robert mentioned.
>
>>A current limitation of the release is that it *must* be installed on
>>drive C. It is not possible to successfully specify an alternative drive
>>for the installation.
>
>Note that this is *in addition* to the documented restriction that it
>must be installed in the specified directory.  The result of these
>combined restrictions is that GNAT must currently be installed in
>"c:\usr", which is the default.

Most unfortunate.  While the word "currently" does imply that this
problem will be fixed in a future release, is this likely to be the
"next" release?

-- Lance.