Software Engineering News, May 9, 1997

Software Engineering News, May 9, 1997

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Week Ending:  May 9, 1997

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ADA/DCE BINDINGS IN ARC LIBRARY
Topic:  Ada, Reuse, COE

The Army Reuse Center has announced the availability of "Ada/Distributed 
Computing Environment (DCE) Bindings (RSCID#10d003YG)" in the ARC 
Library.  The Ada/DCE Bindings provide standard Ada 95 bindings to DCE 
1.1 for use in the distributed environment as part of the Joint Common 
Operating Environment (COE) and for all other DoD systems.

The software runs on Sun SPARC, Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 operating systems, 
and requires the following:  Open Software Foundation (OSF) DCE, v. 
1.03/1.1; GCC v. 2.6.3 for Solaris; and, GNAT compiler 2.07 for Solaris.

For a library user account, contact Mr. Ray Lloyd; tel. 703/806-4181, DSN 
656-4181.

SOURCE:  Chhut, Ravinn, "Ada/DCE Bindings," ARC News, April 1997, v5 n6 p5.

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NEW ADA 95 VALIDATED COMPILERS
Topic:  Ada

Listed below are the latest Ada 95 compilers to be validated:

1)Company: Ada Core Technologies, Inc. / Siemens Nixdorf
           Informationssysteme AG
Compiler:  GNAT 4.00
Host:      Siemens Nixdorf RM 200
Host OS:   (under SINIX 5.42)

2)Company: Ada Core Technologies, Inc.
Compiler:  GNAT 4.00
Host:      SPARCstation IPX
Host OS:   (under SunOS 4.1.3)

3)Company: Ada Core Technologies, Inc./ On-Line Applications Research
           Corporation
Compiler:  GNAT/RTEMS 4.00
Host:      SPARCstation 4
Host OS:   (under Solaris 2.4)

4)Company: Ada Core Technologies, Inc. / Tenon Intersystems
Compiler:  GNAT 4.00
Host:      Macintosh Performa 6400/180 (PowerPC 603e)
Host OS:   (under Power MachTen 4.1.0)
 
5)Company: Ada Core Technologies, Inc.
Compiler:  GNAT 4.00
Host:      Toshiba Tecra 740CDT (Pentium)
Host OS:   (under Linux 1.2.13)


For more information regarding these validated compilers, contact the 
vendors at the following addresses:

Ada Core Technologies, Inc.
73 Fifth Avenue, Suite 11B
New York, NY  10003-3030
POC: Robert Dewar 212-620-7300 (ext. 100) [FOR TECH. OR SALES INFO]
mailto:dewar@gnat.com
Nancy Cruz   212-620-7300 (ext. 117) [FOR SALES INFO]
mailto:cruz@gnat.com, mailto:sales@gnat.com

Manfred Knirr
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
OEC SaM SA 2
D-81730 Munich  GERMANY
ph.#: +49 89 636 52953
mailto:Manfred.Knirr@mch.sni.de

On-Line Applications Research Corporation
4910-L Corporate Drive
Huntsville AL  35815  USA
ph.#:  205/722-9985
FAX#:  205/722-0985
[technical info]:  Joel Sherrill ; joel@OARcorp.com
[marketing info]:  Mark Johannes ; mark@OARcorp.com

Tenon Intersystems
1123 Chapala St, Suite 202
Santa Barbara CA  93101  USA
ph.#:  805/963-6983
[technical info]:  info@tenon.com
[sales info]:      sales@tenon.com

The total number of Ada 95 validated compilers that are available to the
Ada development community now stands at 56.  As always, the AdaIC maintains
a list of all validated Ada compilers available at:
<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/compilers>

SOURCE:  Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO)

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NEW COMPONENTS IN THE ARC LIBRARY
Topic:  Ada, Reuse

Two new components, "DEFINE_CRT 10D003UU" and "DEFINE KEYS 10D003UV", 
have been recently added to the Army Reuse Center (ARC) Library.

DEFINE_CRT is an Ada package that instantiates a generic Cathode Ray Tube 
Template.  The generic package provides operations to get and put 
elements at specified columns and set display attributes.

DEFINE KEYS is an Ada package that retrieves keyboard inputs and returns 
the corresponding code.  It deals with keys other that the alphanumeric 
inputs, such as "TAB" or "F1" keys.

For more information or a library user account, contact Roy Lloyd at 
703/806-4181 or DSN 656-4181.

SOURCE:  ARC News, April 1997, v5 n6 p9.

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