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From: "Ed Falis" <falis@ma.aonix.com>
Subject: Re: ads file not found
Date: 1998/02/14
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It's also worth pointing out to the person asking the question (and casual
observers) that this is not an Ada issue, but a specific compiler issue, so
taking the oft-mentioned advice - RTFM  (read the manual).

- Ed Falis
Aonix

bklungle wrote in article <01bd397b$dee126a0$0e2915c0@p5120>...

>Assuming you really are a beginner and this is not a pre-April fools joke,
>the message you are getting implies that you have created a file such as
>"filename.adb" which contains the phrase "package body filename is .....
>end filename;". The Ada compiler then assumes the existence of a
>corresponding "filename.ads" which contains the phrase "package filename is
>.... end filename:". This is called the filename package specification and
>should contain the definitions and object declarations you want to export
>to the external world (some other package uses your packages objects). A
>real simple example follows: