Re: ada compiler for os/2

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <3jm024$7ah@news1.delphi.com>,  <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>>Gnat Ada for OS/2 is one of the supported platforms, and implements
>>all of Ada83, and most of Ada95.
>The OS2 Gnat at cs.ny.edu appears to have dates of last December.
>There were major gaps.  Is the new release imminent?
>
I've been beating on an early release...one should be out by tomorrow.

>>there are OS/2 bindings (allows you to call OS/2 services).
>Where?  (I downloaded something that was temporarily in the upload
>directory on hobbes a month or so ago, but the link failed because
>something was missing.  Is there a new version?)
>
Look on cs.nyu.edu, under /pub/gnat/contrib.  Hobbes for some reason
refuses to let it stay on their system, presumably because it's in
early stages.

>>still need a book on using OS/2 to know how to use such services.
>Specific title suggestions please.  'Using OS/2 Warp' and
>Petzold's 'OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming' don't tell.  Of
>the dozens of OS/2 books at Computer Literacy, which few should a
>person get to find out the API calls.
>
I think there''s a discussion of this in the PM binding package at
the location mentioned above.


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