Re: texttools and standard library packages

[agent@drrob1.com]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:24:35 -0800 (PST), koburtch@gmail.com wrote:

>On Sunday, December 15, 2013 5:05:15 PM UTC-5, kobu...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:25:37 PM UTC-5, ag...@drrob1.com wrote:
>> 
>> I am a total newbie in regards to Ada, but have been using stony brook
>> modula2 for many years.
>> I am trying to use the source texttools-2-1-0 and to compile the
>> ttdemo program.  I am getting an error saying that To255 is undefined.
>> I cannot find where this is.
>> Where do I look, or what library to I have to import (with,use)?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> I don't read this group often.  I noticed your message.
>> 
>> Texttools was taken over by Nicholas Boulenguez.  In his latest version, he made major changes to the structure.  This included renaming the functions, converting everything to Ada 2005 containers and unbounded strings.
>> The To255 function was in the older version of Texttools.  It converts a fixed string to an 255 character bounded string.  Nicholas' changes replaced bounded strings with unbounded strings.
>> If you need To255, you should try version 2.0.7, which is on the Pegasoft web site.
>> 
>> If you have specific questions about Texttools, you should email Nicholas, or contact me through the Pegasoft website and I will forward your questions to him.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ken Burtch
>
>My server crashed shortly after posting.  Thank goodness for RAID 1.  I'm recovering my email and websites as I'm typing this.
>
>If you have thoughts to improve Texttools, send them to Nicolas (or send them to me).  He hasn't updated Texttools in a year so maybe this will encourage him to clean up any issues you find.
>
>Regards,
>Ken Burtch

My suggestion is about the documentation.  It would be extremely
useful for me to have gpr files that will compile and run the
examples.

Right now, when I try to do that, I'm getting a stack overflow
whenever I run either basic or basic2.

There is no way for me to determine which version of the modules
binaries are installed via synaptic