S: Ada Rationale, PostScript version

S: Ada Rationale, PostScript version

[Marco Schmidt]

I'm looking for a PostScript version of the Ada Rationale to print it
out. I followed the instructions on
http://www.adahome.com/LRM/95/Rationale/Postscript/ to modify the
files but couldn't view them with a modern version of GhostView (the
PS files seem to be from 1995) on Linux or NT. I sent a mail to the
maintainer on that website, but he didn't answer and I'd like to have
it as soon as possible. Does anyone have a working copy mirrored?

Is this Rationale available in A4 format? Not important, but more
convenient ;-)

Regards,
Marco

Re: S: Ada Rationale, PostScript version

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <37af0d65.18023816@news.rwth-aachen.de>, marcoschmidt@geocities.com (Marco Schmidt) writes:
> I'm looking for a PostScript version of the Ada Rationale to print it
> out. I followed the instructions on
> http://www.adahome.com/LRM/95/Rationale/Postscript/ to modify the
> files but couldn't view them with a modern version of GhostView (the
> PS files seem to be from 1995) on Linux or NT. I sent a mail to the
> maintainer on that website, but he didn't answer and I'd like to have
> it as soon as possible. Does anyone have a working copy mirrored?

You have two different standards for what constitutes Postscript --
the Document and a program called GhostView.  Is there any reason to
believe that a Postscript printer would side with GhostView rather
than the Document ?

Larry Kilgallen

Re: S: Ada Rationale, PostScript version

[Tucker Taft]

Marco Schmidt wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a PostScript version of the Ada Rationale to print it
> out. I followed the instructions on
> http://www.adahome.com/LRM/95/Rationale/Postscript/ to modify the
> files but couldn't view them with a modern version of GhostView (the
> PS files seem to be from 1995) on Linux or NT. I sent a mail to the
> maintainer on that website, but he didn't answer and I'd like to have
> it as soon as possible. Does anyone have a working copy mirrored?

The adahome site is a mirror.  The "original" site is:

    http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html

This provides access to a number of Ada 95-related standards.  If you
know you want a "zip" of the postscript of the rationale, you can
go directly to:

   http://www.adaic.org/standards/95rat/RATzip/ps/rat_all.ps.zip

> Is this Rationale available in A4 format? Not important, but more
> convenient ;-)

There is a version of the Reference Manual in A4 format, but not one
for the Rational, as far as I know.  Springer-Verlag sells a hard-copy
of the Ada 95 Rationale, if you want to have a nicely-bound version.

Note that the Rationale was produced using Microsoft Word, and the
Postscript it generates sometimes gives other tools hiccoughs (no big
surprise about that, I suppose).
> 
> Regards,
> Marco

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