Ada-Belgium archive operational (fwd)

Ada-Belgium archive operational (fwd)

[Dirk Craeynest]

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[ This message is extracted from the Ada-Belgium members mailing list.
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Announcement: the Ada-Belgium Archive is now operational!
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Ada-Belgium is intended to be a forum for persons and organizations
interested in the Ada programming language, in its applications and
in Ada related technologies such as software engineering methods,
environments and tools. 

An enormous amount of Ada related information, compilers, tools, etc.
is freely available on several archive sites abroad (mainly the U.S.A.)
for electronic transfer.

One of the aims of the Ada-Belgium organization is to disseminate
Ada related information.  So, in addition to the publication of our
newsletter, the organization of seminars, workshops, etc., we are also
setting up such an Ada archive for people and companies in Belgium.
This enables everyone interested, to consult and download all this
software and documents using an ftp and e-mail server in Belgium,
thus without the need to use (expensive) international connections.

The Ada-Belgium archive is primarily intended for the Belgian Ada
community, but anyone interested is welcome to use it.


Status: the Ada-Belgium ftp-archive is operational. 
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Ada-Belgium acquired a CD-ROM drive, which is available via the archive.
The drive currently contains the July 1994 version of the Ada CD-ROM,
i.e. a copy of the Internet's Public Ada Library (PAL) as of July 1994
(620 MB of Ada documentation, information, and source code).

The archive is available via:

- the Ada-Belgium WWW home-page (World Wide Web)
    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/

- the FTP-server of the K.U.Leuven Computer Science Department
    ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium

- an e-mail server for people without ftp-access.
  For more information, send a message 

    To: mail-server@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
    Subject:

    begin
    help
    dir Ada-Belgium
    send Ada-Belgium/README
    end

The archive currently only contains the Ada CDROM.  We hope to be able
to expand it in the near future.


Your help is appreciated! 
-------------------------

We are still looking for sponsors of a large disk, so we can mirror the
PAL (and other Ada archives) directly.

If you are in a position to help us to expand this Ada server for
Belgium, e.g. by providing some hardware (a large disk drive, a server
machine, etc.), please contact me.


Acknowledgements:
-----------------

The Department of Computer Science of the K.U.Leuven in Belgium kindly
provides the computer resources to run the Ada-Belgium WWW/ftp/e-mail
servers and associated mailing lists; and our sponsors provide the means
to make Ada-Belgium possible. 

Ada-Belgium wishes to thank Walnut Creek CDROM for their support of our
activities by donating a copy of their Ada CDROM.


Ada-Belgium sponsors: (in alphabetical order)
---------------------
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) 
Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.) 
Offis N.V./S.A. 
Trasys N.V./S.A 
Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.)


Dirk Craeynest     (Team Ada)
Ada-Belgium Newsletter Editor     | e-mail: dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven    |         dirk@source.asset.com
Department of Computer Science    | phone:  ++32(0)16-201015 x3575
Celestijnenlaan 200 A             | fax:    ++32(0)16-205308
B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium | http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk