Looking for bindings

Looking for bindings

[AG]

Hello all,

  I am currently looking for several bindings and wonder if somebody
could help me out.
The background is - I'm trying to rewrite an application written
originally in a different
language. The program itself is rather trivial - just a shell passing
data around. However,
it depends on a number of interfaces and that's where problems start.
Specifically, I'm
looking for one set of:

MAPI, DBF/CDX, WinSock
  or
MAPI, DBF/CDX, Zip

All of them together would be best but either of WinSock or Zip would
do.

I tried ObjectAda at first, because it contains thin bindings to MAPI
and WinSock within
it's Win32API. However, it appears now that they are only available with
a full (not the free
downloadable) version. I know that those two at least could be done with
import pragmas,
but to reimplement all those bindings from scratch would account for
well over 99% of the
total effort which is prohibitive.
I did check AdaHome, PAL and a few other pages from postings in this NG,
but the only
item I managed to find was a rather old ('85) MAPI implementation for
VAX/VMS. While
it was interesting to look through the code there, it didn't seem really
applicable to NT/95
configuration. So, could somebody provide more specific pointers to
those bindings (if they
exist)?

MAPI could be a stripped-down version - just read/send message + address
resolution,
no need for attachments etc. WinSock is server side - listening sockets,
multiple concurrent
sessions and all that.

I am currently using [trying to use] ObjectAda for W95/NT. NT is the
target machine with
95 used for developement/testing purposes. Any pointers appreciated.

Thank you,
AG

(BTW, I apologise for not using my full name)

Re: Looking for bindings

[Tom Moran]

>All of them together would be best but either of WinSock or Zip would
>do.
  Claw (www.rrosftware.com) has a thick Winsock binding that runs with
ObjectAda and Gnat, among others.  (I wrote it.)
>(not the free
>downloadable) version
But I don't believe they are part of the no-charge downloadable demo
version.
>but to reimplement all those bindings from scratch would account for
>well over 99% of the
>total effort 
Sounds like you may need to spend either effort or money.

Re: Looking for bindings

[Matthew Heaney]

AG <ang@xtra.co.nz> writes:

>   I am currently looking for several bindings and wonder if somebody
> could help me out.
> The background is - I'm trying to rewrite an application written
> originally in a different
> language. The program itself is rather trivial - just a shell passing
> data around. However,
> it depends on a number of interfaces and that's where problems start.
> Specifically, I'm
> looking for one set of:
> 
> MAPI, DBF/CDX, WinSock
>   or
> MAPI, DBF/CDX, Zip
> 
> All of them together would be best but either of WinSock or Zip would
> do.


Here's the URL for a sockets binding:

<http://www-inf.enst.fr/ANC/>

Re: Looking for bindings

[AG]

Matthew Heaney wrote:

>
> Here's the URL for a sockets binding:
>
> <http://www-inf.enst.fr/ANC/>

Thanks for that. I got the files but are they in "tar" format?
I did a search but haven't found a dearchiver like that available
for download (for W95), does such a thing exist?
Or are those files Unix-specific and wouldn't do much sense
on W95 anyway?

Thanks again.

Re: Looking for bindings

[bill]

In article <3725662B.BBB281BA@xtra.co.nz>, AG says...
 
>>
>> Here's the URL for a sockets binding:
>>
>> <http://www-inf.enst.fr/ANC/>
>

>Thanks for that. I got the files but are they in "tar" format?

>I did a search but haven't found a dearchiver like that available
>for download (for W95), does such a thing exist?
>Or are those files Unix-specific and wouldn't do much sense
>on W95 anyway?
>
 

if you must use windows, then winzip can handle tar and gz files 
just fine. simply drag the tar file on the winzip icon. 

Bill.

Re: Looking for bindings

[dennison]

In article <7g4094$qlq@drn.newsguy.com>,
  bill@ wrote:
> In article <3725662B.BBB281BA@xtra.co.nz>, AG says...
>
> >>
> >> Here's the URL for a sockets binding:
> >>
> >> <http://www-inf.enst.fr/ANC/>
> >
>
> >Thanks for that. I got the files but are they in "tar" format?
>
> >I did a search but haven't found a dearchiver like that available
> >for download (for W95), does such a thing exist?
> >Or are those files Unix-specific and wouldn't do much sense
> >on W95 anyway?
> >
>
> if you must use windows, then winzip can handle tar and gz files
> just fine. simply drag the tar file on the winzip icon.

If you prefer to deal with gnu-zipped and/or tarred files in their native
habitat, there's a link to the Gnu Win32 tools on my hompage. The tools
include gzip and tar and several other goodies.

--
T.E.D.

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