From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/12
Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ca3gl$bp8$1@news.interlog.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c8tir$nt0$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Brief update: I've unpacked, gnatchopped, and compiled everything in sight;
ATANGLE compiles, and seems to run (I can't easily tell if correctly);
AWEAVE fails to compile miserably (there seems to be a lot either missing or
misnamed). The source code I've tried to compile is the Ada source supplied
(partially krunched); it is also effectively supplied in the form of AWEB
files, but ATANGLE doesn't seem to produce any result (other than a deeply
cryptic --{31:} type comment all on its own). Back to square one I think.
C'est la vie!
Getting gnatchop to work was an amusing little saga: On installing to
Windows 95, the installer does a wonderful job, but it does not amend
AUTOEXEC.BAT to set up the PATH variable, so for gnatchop to be able to
find gnat1 (which it needs), PATH has got to have something incredibly
unlikely such as C:\GNAT\LIB\MING32XYZ\3.2.1 added to it; however, MS-DOS
has always had a severe limit on the amount of memory it allows for
environment variables -- including PATH -- so I altered AUTOEXEC.BAT as
needed, but my PATH was only getting partially set, because Windows (in DOS
mode) was running out of environment variable memory (with my so far?); so,
I have to be remming out other additions to PATH to allow the additions I
need to fit in there, and FINALLY it all worked. It's a good job I've got a
sense of humour. I don't blame GNAT/ACT (Windows' oddities are not their
fault); I don't really blame Microsoft (they've by and large done a clever
job providing upward compatibility); but you (almost) never get any of this
kind of silliness with the UNIX-based operating systems; I'm a great critic
of UNIX, but this is one of the things UNIX got really right from the start
(a simple, generally unrestricted memory model). Enough waffle.
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Nick Roberts
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 0:00 Looking for AWEB Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Mike Harrison
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Patrick Mérissert-Coffinières
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Martin Kew
1999-04-13 0:00 ` nospam!bob
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
1999-03-25 0:00 ` FREDERICK LONG
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
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