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Subject: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux
 Without Some Tweaking.
From: Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>
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On Saturday, December 7, 2013 5:18:06 PM UTC, Simon Wright wrote:
> Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:
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> > From what you have told me I think I should leave the dissemination of
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> > the finished ciphers (currently to hand in Ada-95 only but required in
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> > all the possible future versions of Ada) to experienced people who are
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> > au fait with all the nuances of compilers that are available to day.
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> 
> 
> The compilers I've tried with this are Ada2005 natively, and your
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> programs also work with the -gnat12 (Ada 2012) switch.
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> 
> 
> You might have tripped over new reserved words, but didn't, and since
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> you haven't used access or tagged types or tasking I think you'd be
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> pretty safe to upgrade your compiler.
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> 
> A couple of points:
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> (a) when I encrypted
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> 
> 
> Now is the time for all good men
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> to come to the aid of the Party.
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> ~
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> 
> 
> it decrypted as
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> 
> 
> Now is the time for all good mento come to the aid of the Party.~
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> 
> 
> Is that meant to happen, or is there a problem with Windows line
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> terminators (CR/LF) vs Unix (LF)?
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> 
> 
> (b) when I decrypted Email_CipherTextFile_X.dat I got
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> Execution terminated by unhandled exception
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> Exception name: ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.DATA_ERROR
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> 
> 
> and the exception was raised at line 683 of
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> general_decryption_program_mark_2.adb.

Hi Simon, 

"The compilers I've tried with this are Ada2005 natively, and your 
programs also work with the -gnat12 (Ada 2012) switch."

This answers the general question will the software run in Macos ?.

You have done me proud with your researches and I am hugely grateful.

Many thanks for everything.

Austin