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,c71453a1d79f18ef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-10 03:50:14 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada compiler for os/2 Date: 9 Mar 1995 07:26:30 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Message-ID: <3jmvm6$4sp@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <3jm024$7ah@news1.delphi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1995-03-09T07:26:30-06:00 List-Id: In article <3jm024$7ah@news1.delphi.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. -- Frustrated with C, C++, Pascal, Fortran? Ada95 _might_ be for you! For all sorts of interesting Ada95 tidbits, run the command: "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.)