Re: Newbie: need help setting up Ada 95

["Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com>]

I don't have a \documentation directory, or any HTML files, only TXT hellp
files. I think I may have downloaded the wrong version. I have
gnat-3.13p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin. I will try and download gnat-3.13p-nt.exe
and see if I get those files.

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:a340ie$h67$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> Look through your directory tree for a file called gnat_ug.html (or
similar
> name - it exists as postscript, text, etc.) You'll probably find it under
> "C:\gnat\documentation" if you're on Windows. (You didn't say what
> platform.) That should walk you through your basic "Hello World" examples
> along with explaining most of what you'd need to know to successfully
> operate the compiler.
>
> Gnat is basically command line oriented. (Type "gnatmake <main prog name>"
> at a command prompt.) However, if you are on Windows, you can use AdaGIDE
as
> an interactive development environment and invoke the compiler with a
> mouseclick. You need to download that separately. The Unix users usually
use
> a version of emacs that is Ada/Gnat aware. If that's important to you, you
> can find that as well...
>
> See: http://www.adapower.com/ for links to all sorts of Ada software, free
> books on line, tutorials, etc. Lots of stuff for the beginner available
> there.
>
> MDC
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>
> "Paul Verkruissen" <paulverkruissen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a33u92$lgd$1@newswriterENV1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Hello
> >
> > I am new to Ada, but need to learn it quickly. I have found an Ada site
> and
> > downloaded Ada 96 GNAT-3.13p-i686. I expanded the ZIP file and it copied
> > itself into a directory structure, however I do not now how to activate
> the
> > compiler and linker.
> >
> > Is there further steps required, or is it all command/script based? I
have
> > read the README file which says to run DOCONFIG, but that file is just
> > another text file, so how do I run that?
> >
> > Any help would be appeciated
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
>