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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b8c6612cb835f981,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-18 11:31:27 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!usenet From: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada FAQ: The Ada WWW Server Followup-To: poster Date: 18 Oct 1994 17:38:59 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <38117j$3k5@disunms.epfl.ch> Reply-To: Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe) NNTP-Posting-Host: lglsun4.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Summary: Ada WWW Server Introduction Keywords: Ada, WWW Date: 1994-10-18T17:38:59+00:00 List-Id: Archive-name: Ada/ada-www-server Comp-lang-ada-archive-name: ada-www-server Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 27 September 1994 Last-posted: 12 September 1994 Ada FAQ: The Ada WWW Server In this FAQ you will find: an overview of the contents of the Ada WWW server, general information on WWW, references to some available WWW browsers, and directions to access WWW trough e-mail. Contents: * Introduction * What's On The Server ? * What is WWW ? * Some WWW browsers * WWW by E-mail * Copying this FAQ Recent changes: * 940912: update of the information on WWW browsers and email access. * added an explicit copyright statement. _________________________________________________________________ Introduction The Ada WWW Server is a hypertext information server to help disseminate information about the Ada programming language. It is alive and heavily used. The Ada WWW server is managed by Magnus Kempe. The latest version of this FAQ is always accessible through WWW as http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/FAQ/ada-www-server.html . The URL of the Ada WWW Server is http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ [don't forget the trailing '/'; and it's 'Ada', neither 'ADA' nor 'ada']. The Ada WWW Server keeps growing. All comments, ideas, contributions, and requests for additions or corrections, are most welcome. Email should be directed to the maintainer, Magnus.Kempe@di.epfl.ch . The Ada WWW Server is physically located at the Software Engineering Lab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. What's On The Server ? The Ada WWW Server provides Ada-related information and hypertext access in areas including (the following is a non-exhaustive list): * Reference Manuals + hypertext versions of LRM 83 and of (draft 4.0) RM 9X + text of LRM 83 and RM 9X + text of the rationales for Ada 83 and 9X * State of Ada 9X Revision Process * Resources + standards + bindings + tools and components + software repositories + list of books and articles, and online papers + research activities + current list of validated compilers + cheap and free compilers + educational discounts + CD-ROMs * Intellectual Ammunition + some facts about the language + Ada 9X + Ada in academia (e.g. who teaches Ada, textbooks, educational discounts) + Ada in industry (e.g. success stories) + special interest groups + debunking myths * Historical Notes on Ada + the Lady and the programming language * Introductory Material + design goals and summary of the language + textbooks + free compilers * Frequently Asked Questions--with Answers + comp.lang.ada + Ada WWW + PAL + Team-Ada * FTP Sites--and Mirrors * Ada-related News and Events + conferences, workshops (calls for papers, programs) + calendar + press releases + technical and other news * Ada Picture Gallery * CS Technical Reports For instance, you will find the list of schools using Ada in CS1 or CS2, an article on commercial success stories, information about software components, as well as hypertext versions of the Ada reference manual (both 83 and draft 9X). What Is WWW ? The World Wide Web (WWW) is what Fortune Magazine ("The Internet And Your Business," March 7, 1994, pp. 86-96) called the "killer application" that will make the Internet indispensable to anyone in the 1990's just as the spreadsheet did for the PC in the 1980's. WWW is like a distributed hypermedia encyclopedia. It is a database and communications protocol, it is multimedia, distributed, and hypertext. Clicking on links takes the user from document to document, from site to site, world-wide. WWW was originally developed by researchers at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The basic concepts used in WWW are hypertext--text that is not constrained to be linear--and multimedia--information that is not constrained to be text. With hypertext, documents can contain links to other documents, or another reference within the same document. With multimedia, documents can contain objects that are not necessarily text--sounds, movies, and interactive sessions are all possible. WWW has also attracted attention from Business Week (two articles, March 28, 1994, pp. 170 and 180), Byte ("Data Highway," March 1994), Scientific American ("Wire Pirates," March 1994), German Der Spiegel (March 1994), and British PC Week (March 15, 1994). In March 1994, WWW was featured on CNN's FutureWatch. For more information, read the WWW FAQ, available in hypertext at http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html, and in the FTP archive of news.answers: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq . Some WWW Browsers Commercial and free WWW browsers are available for all major platforms (Unix, Macintosh, Windows, DOS, VMS, VM, NeXTstep...). An up-to-date list of browsers is available on the Web as http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html and should be regarded as an authoritative list. Here is some quick reference information for a few free browsers: For instance, Mosaic is the name of an application which lets users navigate through the Internet and browse through the Web; this software --distributed free to anyone who requests it and available for Unix workstations, Macintosh systems, and MS Windows-- was developed at NCSA, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The Mosaic binaries are FTP-able from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/ (Unix and VMS), ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Mosaic , and ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/PC/Mosaic . Lynx is a full screen browser for vt100 terminals; precompiled binaries are available from ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx . Cello is a client for PCs running Windows, available from ftp://fatty.law.cornell.edu/pub/LII/Cello . W3 is an Emacs subsystem, available from ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3 (files w3.tar.Z and extras.tar.Z). If you work on a Unix machine, a WWW browser might already be installed, so you may try to execute xmosaic http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ or Mosaic http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ If you do not yet have a WWW browser, you can go over the Internet with telnet info.cern.ch which will bring you to the WWW Home Page at CERN. You are now using a simple line-mode browser. To move around the Web, enter the number given after an item. To go to the Ada WWW Server, enter go http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ WWW by E-mail If you do not have direct Internet access (i.e. ftp, telnet, etc.), you can still retrieve WWW documents by e-mail: send a message to listserv@info.cern.ch with one or more lines of the form send [http-address] e.g. send http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ At the bottom of the message you will be sent you will find all links of the document you requested. Note that your mail system must be gatewayed to Internet mail. For more information on how to access the Web, read the WWW FAQ (mentioned above). _________________________________________________________________ Copying this FAQ This FAQ is copyright 1994 by Magnus Kempe. It may be freely redistributed as long as it is completely unmodified and that no attempt is made to restrict any recipient from redistributing it on the same terms. It may not be sold or incorporated into commercial documents without the explicit written permission of the copyright holder. Permission is granted for this document to be made available under the same conditions for file transfer from sites offering unrestricted file transfer on the Internet and from Forums on e.g. Compuserve and Bix. This document is provided as is, without any warranty. _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy. 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