lrm83.ps

lrm83.ps

[Jan Hext]

Can anyone tell me where to find a Postscript version of the '83 version
of the LRM?  In the move to Ada 95, it seems to have been systematically
wiped from all the standard sites - if indeed there ever was one.  All I
can find on the network are PC versions.

Jan Hext

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Re: lrm83.ps

[Carl Bowman]

In article <4gg5kg$r6d@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>,
Jan Hext <jan@mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me where to find a Postscript version of the '83 version
>of the LRM?  In the move to Ada 95, it seems to have been systematically
>wiped from all the standard sites - if indeed there ever was one.  All I
>can find on the network are PC versions.
>
>Jan Hext
>


To my knowledge, when the LRM was delivered to the AJPO, there was no
requirement for electronic copy.  When an electronic copy was
requested, only an ASCII version was made.  The HTML and Microsoft
Windows help versions of today were recompilations of the text
document.  I don't think the AdaIC ever had a Postscript version.


Carl Bowman
Ada Information Clearinghouse

Re: lrm83.ps

[Robert I. Eachus]

In article <4ghn6e$oos@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> bowmanc@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Carl Bowman) writes:

  > To my knowledge, when the LRM was delivered to the AJPO, there was no
  > requirement for electronic copy.  When an electronic copy was
  > requested, only an ASCII version was made.  The HTML and Microsoft
  > Windows help versions of today were recompilations of the text
  > document.  I don't think the AdaIC ever had a Postscript version.

   Postscript didn't exist then. To quote from the inside cover of the
original 1983 RM:

   "This reference manual was prepared with a formatter specialized
for Ada texts.  It was developed by Jon F. Hueras for Multics, using
the Cii Honeywell Bull photocomposition system."

    AFAIK, any existing Ada 83 RM versions in Postscript are
proprietary, but one can probably be generated from the Scribe version
with the proper tools.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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