Re: RE: rename missing in Text_IO

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

In article <9d6ahn$157$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>Every time I have to dip into the Win32ada interfaces to get at
Windoze, I
>wish I had an ever-so-slightly thicker binding that simply had its own
>parameter passing and data typing and all that so I don't have to deal
with
>all the long chains of types & subtypes and ridiculous parameters that
the C

R.R.'s Win32 bindings (which predate Win32Ada) were designed exactly
that way, and for exactly that reason. There even was a project to
create a public version of them ("just thick enough" - named "MAWB" for
Medium Ada Windows Binding), but that ended up going nowhere when people
adopted Win32Ada instead.

We ended up stopping development on it in favor of a thicker binding
(which now is Claw). (Claw includes lots of stuff outside of pure GUI
functions, including sockets, registry operations [including
common-high-level operations such as registering a file extension], and
directory operations.

            Randy.

(P.S. I posted this message last week, but I don't think it ever got
posted. Apologies to anyone that sees it twice.)