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=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_SPAM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1032a1,1a91c683b7703121 X-Google-Attributes: gid1032a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f0e2b9422a6e2f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <7ca3gl$bp8$1@news.interlog.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454063396 References: <7bv5nl$8vc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7c5up1$gf7$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <7c8tir$nt0$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET WorldCom) NNTP-Posting-Time: 12 Mar 1999 04:00:21 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.programming.literate Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. ------------------------------------- Nick Roberts -------------------------------------