New Ada CDROM added to Ada-Belgium archive (fwd)

New Ada CDROM added to Ada-Belgium archive (fwd)

[Dirk Craeynest]

[ This message is extracted from the Ada-Belgium members mailing list.
  It is posted here for your information.  -- dc ]

Announcement:

  The CDROM mirror of the Public Ada Library on the Ada-Belgium Archive
  has been updated!
  The July 1994 Edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM has been replaced
  by the first disk of the November 1994 Edition of the new 2 disk CDROM
  set.  (This is the set that will be distributed at the Ada-Belgium
  Seminar tomorrow.)

A copy of the updated README file follows.

Dirk Craeynest
(Ada-Belgium Newsletter Editor & Team Ada)
dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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This is the ftp-archive of the Ada-Belgium organization.


The purpose of Ada-Belgium is 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 organization of
seminars, workshops, etc., and the publication of our newsletter,
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.


Ada-Belgium acquired a CDROM drive, which is available via the archive.
The drive currently contains the first disk of the November 1994 version
of the Ada CDROM 2 disk set, i.e. a copy of the Internet's Public Ada
Library (PAL) as of October 1994 (1.1 GB of Ada documentation,
information, and source code). 

Due to the large interest in the GNU-Ada compiler GNAT (GNU NYU Ada 9X
Translator), and the rapid succession of new releases, we have added an
automatically updated mirror of the original GNAT distribution directory
to the Ada-Belgium ftp archive.


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 Ada-Belgium archive is primarily intended for the Belgian Ada
community, but anyone interested is welcome to use it.  The archive
currently only contains the Ada CDROM and the GNU-Ada mirror.

The Ada-Belgium WWW home-page contains several pointers to other
interesting Ada locations in CyperSpace...


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 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
Universite' 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