Re: How to Download From PAL ?

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:29:24 AM UTC-5, Stéphane Rivière wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> If you search for similar old Ada 83 and Ada 95 sources, I have 2,2 Go 
> of (compressed) "Ada Documentation, information and source code 
> organized by Richard Conn" who is the author of PAL...
> 
> Thoses datas come from the "Walnut Creek CDROM company" with "a catalog 
> of PAL, including 1200 pages covering the 2 CDROM set"...
> 
> It was the... Ada CDROM November 1994 edition...
> 
> I can put it on the web the next weekend, if you need this...

Please do!
1) Not only does Pat need this (for his book),
2) but also so do I, more for Ada1995 than Ada1983 though.
But there are other reasons too:
3) We must be vigilant to never let Ada have even a whiff of appearance that Ada is fading away as a forgotten antique into the dustbins of history.  The more broken links and missing archives, the more it looks like either no one cares about Ada or, worse, the generation that authored that material literally has died.
4) All output that was directly and indirectly authored by or funded via Ada Joint Program Office in the Dept of Defense in the USA—and any corresponding offices in NATO—as well as just general Ada momentum from that 1970s-to-1990s era all needs to be preserved and forever available online.

Speaking of which in #4, •••does anyone know which university••• was the designated repository for all Ada Joint Program Office documents upon APJO's closure around 1998 or so?  This article mentions such a deposit to a university repository but never gives the name of the university:
https://gcn.com/Articles/1998/06/22/Its-curtains-for-the-Ada-Joint-Program-Office.aspx
“DISA is also •transferring• its extensive Ada library to a ••university for safekeeping••.
The collection of historic and educational Ada materials will be kept intact and made
available for public use.”

Perhaps they meant only bound books on library shelves instead of the vast trove of declassified & nonclassified AJPO documents regarding AJPO operations.  But still, which university ended up with all that donation, whatever its content was?

> Stef,
> 
> -- 
> Be Seeing You
> Number Six

Who is Number One?
You are … Number Six.

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:41:42 AM UTC-5, pat...@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote:
> Hi Stef
> 
> Thanks so much for offering this. I would love to have it.
> 
> It's too much to ask to post this just for me but if you could do this, I promise to mirror to one of my web sites. Then at least it's a benefit for more than just me.
> 
> -Pat

Pat, I am glad that you requested this, because I had it on my to-do list this week to contact all the maintainers of various websites (e.g., PAL) that had broken links and disabled FTP sites for all this old Ada information.  What fortuitous timing!