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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4bcf77e32d0f6d2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-24 00:20:10 PST Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:05:50 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ftp client package References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.86 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.193.86 Message-ID: <3fc1bad3$1_1@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1069660883 219.95.193.86 (24 Nov 2003 16:01:23 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2888 Date: 2003-11-24T16:05:50+08:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>Looks like this package has strong Claw (Windows) dependencies. > > As written, yes. But I sent to www.adapower.com last spring a Claw > independent version of Claw.Sockets (NC.Sockets). It would be trivial > to change references in the ftp package from Claw to NC. > > >>It should be mostly platform independent and work at least on >>linux/unix (GNAT). > > I haven't tried it with Linux. NC.Sockets does not use any of > the Winsock extensions or window messages. The only obvious Windows > dependency is WSAStartup and WSACleanup, which I presume have some > straightforward counterpart in Linux. I have a ftp package written in Ada. It is far from complete and I'm working on a redesign. If you can wait.... :) -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m