Re: GNAT's gnatchp

[Peter J. Pierce <pierce@patriot.net>]

Mr. Dewar:

In self defense, the following is verbatim from file gcc.hlp 
which is distributed with gnat for Windows95/NT:


--- begin excerpt ---

Usage : gnatchp [-ksw] filename [directory]
k		limit filenames to 8 characters.
r		generate source reference pragmas
s		generate a compilation script.
w	overwrite existing filenames.

--- end excerpt -----

Why would you take an unfounded jab at me?  There is a file 
gnatchp.exe, by the way - which adds to the confusion.

I got other HELPFUL responses which allowed me to determine
I had a "bad" copy of gnatchop.bat.  Once replaced, it worked
fine.

Peter J. Pierce 4/1/96





dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> "I have been trying to get the GNAT utility "gnatchp" to work
> without success.
> 
> I have strictly followed the documentation"
> 
> Well that's a nice contradiction. There is no such thing as the
> GNAT utility "gnatchp", so it would be *quite* hard to follow
> the documentation, strictly or otherwise, on gnatchp, since
> there is none.
> 
> Undoubtedly you read the documentation or GNATCHOP, not gnatchp.
> Changing names in commands does not come under the category'
> of strictly following documentation I am afraid :-) :-)
> 
> Nearly all difficulties with GNAT come from not following the
> documentation exactly in our experience (I mean intallation
> difficulties here).
> 
> One of my students in my class wrote a note today saying that books
> in CS were useless, the only way to learn is by example! I replied
> that the ability to read documentation accurately is an important
> skill! I guess this is a nice example :-)
>