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Is there any (free!) way of using MS Windows COM from Ada? I've looked 
at GNATCOM, but that won't build with the current version of gnat. The 
community says that they're working on it, but there's no news on when 
it will be fixed so I could do with an alternative.

TIA,

Tim Rowe