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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c239006be68d86aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bob Crispen Subject: Re: GNAT on Win 95 Date: 1996/06/10 Message-ID: <9606101448.AA26858@eight-ball>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159445088 sender: Ada programming language comments: To: progers@acm.org newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-ph: V4.4@jericho.american.edu Date: 1996-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: progers@ACM.ORG sez: >>Interestingly enough, what Lycos actually found for me was a link >>to a Bob Crispen page thanking Tom Griest for his efforts with this >>port. That's awfully considerate of you, Bob (although the background >>with the hearts is most sickening). If I was Tom I'd be quite touched, >>.....and quite happy that I live over a thousand miles away. :-) > >Nah -- Tom's wife Laura has Bob beat easily. No contest (and I >haven't even seen Bob:) You will be pleased to know that, yucky hearts aside, I am extremely cute. ----- Getting serious for a moment, I think it's absolutely wonderful news for our community that Robert Dewar is saying they'll be coordinating a little better with LabTek. In the past, it depended on what day you went to the Gnat site whether or not you'd even be let in on the existence of the LabTek Windows 95 port. I appreciate (or at any rate, believe) that there are some financial interests involved. This is an unselfish gesture, and I think it ought to be recognized and applauded. ----- While I'm sort of on the same topic, I hope the relevant folks are paying attention to the Win32 API that's in the process of coming out, I believe through the Cygnus GnuWin32 folks. There's an opportunity for some synergy here, I believe. I apologize for not knowing the name of the author; this represents a tremendous amount of work. ----- This past weekend I got my VRML page in shape and drastically improved the links. There are now screen grabs of all the VRML sites on my list. It's at http://hiwaay.net/~crispen/vrml/ Why would I bring this up in an Ada newsgroup? Because there is quite a fight going on right now in the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) community about the external API. I have been carrying the spear for having at least one of the APIs be in Java bytecode, with the not very well hidden agenda of being able to reuse Ada via AppletMagic. If there are folks here who have an interest in VRML, and who believe it might have some value when coupled with Ada, you might want to join this discussion by sending email to majordomo@wired.com consisting of the line: subscribe www-vrml As with any net community, they appreciate folks being up to speed a little bit on the issues. You might want to check my VRML webpage and follow down some of the links. And please do lurk a while, read the specs and so on before you jump in. I should point out that this is a technical mailing list. Problems with installing a VRML browser on your system and working the controls and questions about where to get a VRML browser are best asked elsewhere. Bob Crispen revbob@eight-ball.hv.boeing.com Speaking for myself, not my company