Re: New to Ada need some help

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Deadmeat <njmurphy@home.com> wrote in message
news:3883B6A7.60931458@home.com...
> Hi, I've a class in programming languages.  The Prof. wants us to use
> Ada to demonstrate some things, like the ambiguity of the IF THEN IF
> ELSE ENDIF statement.  I have down loaded Object Ada 7.1 from Aonix.  It
> seems way cool but it doesn't have the help setup to make it easy to
> find language components.  I have experience with C and all the C IDEs
> that I have used would let you look up commands with the help.  For
> example in C I can do a search in help for strstr and come up with an
> explanation of the function and an example.  I can't seem to find this
> anywhere in the help with object ada or on line.  I had to trace through
> the BNF to find out that the else if clause is elsif, what a pain.  I
> have found a function Is_In but it takes a character set as an
> argument.  I have been unable to locate how to define a character set.
> Could someone point me in the right direction so that my life will be a
> little easier.  TIA
>
I assume that you're running on Windows 9X or Windows NT, from the
reference to Object Ada.

You can download the Ada Reference Manual in Windows Help File format
from ftp://ftp.ada95.com/pub/rm95-winhelp/

This help file contains many hyperlinks and the regular  Windows Help Find
and Topic Index mechanisms.  I hope this helps.