Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[wanker]

Hi,

As you may already know, I'm the schmuck who's been whining about
lack of a gdb debugger for GNAT 3.09 (The Win95 version).  It
seems that for some reason or other my distribution did not
install a debugger, so after considering it, I'm biting the
bullet and re-downloading the entire 9 megs (on a 14.4 modem
no less :().

However, eager as I am not to get bit again, I would like
your suggestions as to a tried and true site where you downloaded
the system and found that it worked fine, debugger and all.

While I'm at it, I intend to download TASH (The TK Ada Bindings)
and of course Tcl/Tk.  Before I do, is there anything that I
should know (bugs, bad distributions, suggested distributions,
etc...)?

Thanks in advance for all the assistance and patience everyone
here has offered me, and I hope that this second attempt will
bear fruit.  

Thanks.

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Mats Weber]

> As you may already know, I'm the schmuck who's been whining about
> lack of a gdb debugger for GNAT 3.09 (The Win95 version).

Take that opportunity to download version 3.10p1.
<ftp://cs.nyu.edu//pub/gnat/winnt/> is the master site for public versions of
GNAT, you should always find everything there.

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[wanker]

In article <34D1C63A.63DBA2DE@elca-matrix.ch>,
Mats Weber  <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> wrote:
>> As you may already know, I'm the schmuck who's been whining about
>> lack of a gdb debugger for GNAT 3.09 (The Win95 version).
>
>Take that opportunity to download version 3.10p1.
><ftp://cs.nyu.edu//pub/gnat/winnt/> is the master site for public versions of
>GNAT, you should always find everything there.

But isn't 3.10p1 a WinNT only version?  I believe cs.nyu.edu was
where I downloaded 3.09, because the documentation stated 
that it was the Win95 version.  However if everything works on
Win95 from there (I've heard conflicting reports), I suppose
I can get that.

Also have you tried TASH on that?  I've read that TASH was tested
on 3.09, so I don't know how it would work on 3.10.

Eagerly awaiting your response.

Thanks a ton also :)

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Martin C. Carlisle]

In article <6askfl$pjf$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> you write:
>But isn't 3.10p1 a WinNT only version?  I believe cs.nyu.edu was
>where I downloaded 3.09, because the documentation stated 
>that it was the Win95 version.  However if everything works on
>Win95 from there (I've heard conflicting reports), I suppose
>I can get that.
>
>Also have you tried TASH on that?  I've read that TASH was tested
>on 3.09, so I don't know how it would work on 3.10.

ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/winnt contains the following:
-rw-r--r--   1 4001     1100     1938521 Jan  9 00:03 gdb-3.10p-nt.exe
-r-xr-xr-x   1 4001     1100     11898808 Sep 19 21:01 gnat-3.10p1-nt.exe

They are the latest public releases for BOTH Win95 and NT.
You will need both to get the debugger.  

GNAT 3.10 also comes with a Windows GUI front-end (AdaGIDE).  The
latest version of that is at:

ftp://ftp.usafa.af.mil/pub/dfcs/carlisle/adagide/agide618.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 1007     1000     2408359 Jan 21 14:59 agide618.zip

I have used TASH with 3.10 and it works fine.
I found it at:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/bindings/tash
tash761.zip            543,349  Sep 17 15:14

Version 800 is not yet available for Windows.

I highly recommend getting a copy of the Tcl/Tk interpreter as well.  I got 
mine on a CD with the book "Graphical Applications with Tcl & Tk 2nd ed",
Foster-Johnson.  It is also available for download somewhere.

As you can see, this is a LOT of bytes to download.  Walnut Creek puts
out an Ada CD-ROM roughly quarterly.  Unfortunately, gdb-3.10p won't
be available until the next one, but this one has gnat-3.10p and TASH.

Hope this helps.

--Martin

-- 
Martin C. Carlisle, Computer Science, US Air Force Academy
mcc@cs.usafa.af.mil, http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfcs/bios/carlisle.html
DISCLAIMER:  This content in no way reflects the opinions, standard or 
policy of the US Air Force Academy or the United States Government.

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Robert S. White]

In article <6askfl$pjf$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>, wanker@exploited.barmy.army says...

>But isn't 3.10p1 a WinNT only version?

 Nope.  It should run on Win95 without problems.  GDB did have a Win95
problem ....but recent release should avoid these problems,

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Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Mark Bennison]

mcc@tyrolia.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle) thought long and
hard and wrote:

>ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/winnt contains the following:
>-rw-r--r--   1 4001     1100     1938521 Jan  9 00:03 gdb-3.10p-nt.exe
>-r-xr-xr-x   1 4001     1100     11898808 Sep 19 21:01 gnat-3.10p1-nt.exe
>

Is anyone else having problems accessing this site? I get:

Fatal Error 500

Can't Access Document: ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/winnt. 

Reason: FTP-server replies: Can't open passive connection: Permission
denied.. 

from Netscape 3. ( I have the GNAT compiler for NT but want to update
my version of GDB ).

Cheers,

Mark.
-- 
Mark Bennison,           +-----------------------------------+
Technical Consultant,    | All opinions expressed are my own |
EASAMS Software Systems. +-----------------------------------+
"Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs" - Armando Iannucci

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Mats Weber]

> from Netscape 3. ( I have the GNAT compiler for NT but want to update
> my version of GDB ).

Netscape is one of the worst ftp clients I have ever used. Try another ftp
client and it will work fine.

Re: Site for GOOD Win95 GNAT Dist?

[Mark Bennison]

Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch> thought long and hard and
wrote:

>> from Netscape 3. ( I have the GNAT compiler for NT but want to update
>> my version of GDB ).
>
>Netscape is one of the worst ftp clients I have ever used. Try another ftp
>client and it will work fine.

I have subsequently discovered that the problem lies in the fact that
we have a firewall installed ( thanks for the info Roger ) which is
preventing this sort of connection. Ah, well...

Mark.
-- 
Mark Bennison,           +-----------------------------------+
Technical Consultant,    | All opinions expressed are my own |
EASAMS Software Systems. +-----------------------------------+
"Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs" - Armando Iannucci