Re: GNAT Ada 3.13 + DOS revisted

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

Ashley Collins wrote in message
<983538732.184184@ernani.logica.co.uk>...
>The source code that I am trying to compile also uses long file names,
which
>don't work under DOS.  So, my overall question is: does anyone know how
I
>can compile a load of Ada source code (with long file names) that can
run on
>a PC than *only* has DOS installed?


Real MS-DOS (as opposed to Windows 95 with the GUI removed) doesn't
support long file names. Period. So that code will never work on MS-DOS,
indeed, it cannot exist in that form on MS-DOS.

OTOH, there is no need for the code to have long file names. Just
copying it to a MS-DOS system will change the names to 8.3 form, and you
can compile them that way. (Not as easy, you have to tell the tolls what
you're doing.)

As far as compiling the Code on bare MS-DOS -- I'll be happy to sell you
a copy of Janus/Ada 83 for MS-DOS (16-bit) or Janus/Ada 95 for MS-DOS
(32-bit with extender). I know of no other MS-DOS solution that is still
supported, and I don't think you can even get any other MS-DOS 16-bit
compiler.

                Randy Brukardt (R.R. Software, Inc.)