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=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd434d1e08581e66,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Richard L. Conn" Subject: ASE Website and CDROM Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <7atnbp$96a$1@camel21.mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447405335 X-Server-Date: 23 Feb 1999 08:03:05 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-23T08:03:05+00:00 List-Id: Hi, Everyone, For those of you who have not yet tried it out, the Ada and Software Engineering (ASE) website (with its associated 2-disc CDROM distribution) is freely available to you. This website and CDROM is like "the best of the Public Ada Library plus extras" with the added flare of serving as an archive for historical purposes. The ASE URL (which has a limit of 3,600 simultaneous users) is: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/ase/index.htm The website contains the same material as the CDROM with the exception that the Card Catalog and index on the website is oriented to the website, while the Card Catalog and index on the CDROM 2-disc set is oriented to the set. A second ASE website is expected to come online later this week. I'll post another message with instructions when it is ready. ASE's thrust is Software (and Systems) Engineering, and (by the way) Ada is an excellent language to support this activity. You can read more about ASE from its writeup on: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/prog/ada.htm You can also use this site to order a copy of the ASE CDROM 2-disc set if you wish. The ASE 2-disc CDROM set was distributed at: SIGAda '98 Ada-Belgium '98 It will also be distributed at: 1999 DoD Software Technology Conference 1999 ACM Computer Science Education Conference Spring COMDEX Some statistics: Disc ID # Dirs # Files # Bytes ======= ====== ======= ============= ASE 01_01 415 6,859 579,955,622 ASE 01_02 271 2,838 575,871,444 === ===== ============= Total 686 9,697 1,155,827,066 Of these files, many of them are ZIP files. The total number of files (counting those in ZIP files) is over 73,500. Plans are now forming to produce a 3rd ASE CDROM, ASE 01_03. As its ID implies, this CDROM will be an update to the existing 2-disc set, and the ASE Card Catalog (with Index) will cover all three discs. For those of you who are Ada fans, the Card Catalog and index were created using a family of programs written in Ada called the Generic Web-based Reuse Library (GWRL). GWRL weaves a web from information contained in asset descriptors, forming a hypertext document that is compatible with HTML 2.0 and up. GWRL (with its Ada95 source code) is included in the ASE. Disclaimer: I am managing the ASE website and acting as editor of the website and CDROMs as a public service. I receive no income from the sale of the CDROMs. I wish to thank the CDROM publisher, Walnut Creek CDROM, for supporting this activity. I wish to also thank those named in the ASE Card Catalog for their contributions to the Public Ada Library and other public distribution resources. Rick Conn ASE Manager --------------------------------------- Richard Conn, ASE, PAL, and SDE Manager http://xenadu.home.mindspring.com/