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From: AG <ang@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Looking for bindings
Date: 1999/04/23
Date: 1999-04-23T10:24:14+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37204A94.9EFAAD@xtra.co.nz> (raw)

Hello all,

  I am currently looking for several bindings and wonder if somebody
could help me out.
The background is - I'm trying to rewrite an application written
originally in a different
language. The program itself is rather trivial - just a shell passing
data around. However,
it depends on a number of interfaces and that's where problems start.
Specifically, I'm
looking for one set of:

MAPI, DBF/CDX, WinSock
  or
MAPI, DBF/CDX, Zip

All of them together would be best but either of WinSock or Zip would
do.

I tried ObjectAda at first, because it contains thin bindings to MAPI
and WinSock within
it's Win32API. However, it appears now that they are only available with
a full (not the free
downloadable) version. I know that those two at least could be done with
import pragmas,
but to reimplement all those bindings from scratch would account for
well over 99% of the
total effort which is prohibitive.
I did check AdaHome, PAL and a few other pages from postings in this NG,
but the only
item I managed to find was a rather old ('85) MAPI implementation for
VAX/VMS. While
it was interesting to look through the code there, it didn't seem really
applicable to NT/95
configuration. So, could somebody provide more specific pointers to
those bindings (if they
exist)?

MAPI could be a stripped-down version - just read/send message + address
resolution,
no need for attachments etc. WinSock is server side - listening sockets,
multiple concurrent
sessions and all that.

I am currently using [trying to use] ObjectAda for W95/NT. NT is the
target machine with
95 used for developement/testing purposes. Any pointers appreciated.

Thank you,
AG

(BTW, I apologise for not using my full name)





             reply	other threads:[~1999-04-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-23  0:00 AG [this message]
1999-04-23  0:00 ` Looking for bindings Tom Moran
1999-04-25  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27  0:00   ` AG
1999-04-27  0:00     ` bill
1999-04-27  0:00       ` dennison
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