* Help with GNAT install @ 1997-06-28 0:00 Jason Carley 1997-06-30 0:00 ` Philip Brashear 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Jason Carley @ 1997-06-28 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi all, I am trying to get the Win95/NT version of GNAT 3.09 running under Win95. All is fine except that gnatchop will not work. It this a bug with the install or a bug with the installer? Regards, Jason. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Help with GNAT install 1997-06-28 0:00 Help with GNAT install Jason Carley @ 1997-06-30 0:00 ` Philip Brashear 1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Philip Brashear @ 1997-06-30 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <33b4d855.2425807@news.magna.com.au>, Jason Carley <jcarley@magna.com.au> wrote: >Hi all, > >I am trying to get the Win95/NT version of GNAT 3.09 running under >Win95. All is fine except that gnatchop will not work. It this a bug >with the install or a bug with the installer? > >Regards, > > >Jason. I noticed that when the files are unzipped, the text files are left with Unix-style <LF> line separators instead of being converted to DOS-style <CR><LF> markers. (I view this as an oversight error on the part of the people doing the packaging.) Solution: Use the DOS "EDIT" command to edit gnatchop.bat. Save the file and exit the editor. Edit fixes up the line separators, so gnatchop should work like a charm. Good luck! Phil Brashear EDS Incorporated ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Help with GNAT install 1997-06-30 0:00 ` Philip Brashear @ 1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar 1997-07-02 0:00 ` Jason Carley 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Robert Dewar @ 1997-07-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Phil Brashear says <<Solution: Use the DOS "EDIT" command to edit gnatchop.bat. Save the file and exit the editor. Edit fixes up the line separators, so gnatchop should work like a charm. >> This has been discussed a number of times, both here and on chat@gnat.com. I strongly recommend that GNAT users looking for help subscribe to chat@gnat.com. A lot of knowledgable GNAT users willing to help others hang out there who do not feel they have time to read CLA (fancy that :-) To subscribe, send email to chat-request@gnat.com with a subscribe message giving your email address. Note: this glitch with gnatchop.bat is a perfect example of the kind of thing that we would like to avoid in a public release. Obviously this kind of thing causes no trouble to the small set of customers using the system. First of all, they mostly know what they are doing, so, like Phil, they can easily fix the problem themselves. Second, if they do have a problem, we can immediately fix it for them. But some user of the public version, often having got the system from a friend, often without any docuemntation at all, may be quite confused by such a glitch. Actually the NT 3.09 version release was a little premature. We rushed it to meet the deadline for the STC CD COM. Whether that was a good idea, who knows? On the one hand, it means that people getting that CD ROM do have a considerably improved version of GNAT for NT/Win95. On the other hand, there were a couple of glitches like the one Phil refers to. Probably we should have waited an extra month or so, but it is always easier to make these judgments in retrospect rather than at the time :-) Anyway, we are going to try to make very sure that the 3.10 distribution is in good shape before the public release. So far, the experience with 3.10a looks very encouraging, so we are hoping for a relativly early public release if all continues to go well. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Help with GNAT install 1997-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar @ 1997-07-02 0:00 ` Jason Carley 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Jason Carley @ 1997-07-02 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) On 1 Jul 1997 09:01:01 -0400, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >Phil Brashear says > ><<Solution: Use the DOS "EDIT" command to edit gnatchop.bat. Save the file >and exit the editor. Edit fixes up the line separators, so gnatchop >should work like a charm. >>> > >This has been discussed a number of times, both here and on chat@gnat.com. >I strongly recommend that GNAT users looking for help subscribe to >chat@gnat.com. A lot of knowledgable GNAT users willing to help others >hang out there who do not feel they have time to read CLA (fancy that :-) > Thanks for the tip Robert. I have subscribed and the list seems very useful. > >Note: this glitch with gnatchop.bat is a perfect example of the kind of >thing that we would like to avoid in a public release. Obviously this >kind of thing causes no trouble to the small set of customers using the >system. First of all, they mostly know what they are doing, so, like >Phil, they can easily fix the problem themselves. Second, if they do >have a problem, we can immediately fix it for them. With respect, I don't know that a glitch in the system neccesarily implies that I do not know what I am doing! I have used Ada95 extensively. My experience with GNAT under Win95 is not great however. Th fix is not exactly intuitive IMHO. > >But some user of the public version, often having got the system from >a friend, often without any docuemntation at all, may be quite confused >by such a glitch. On the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM actually. Please feel free to point me to the section in the documentation sugesting a fix for this "glitch". >Probably we should have waited an extra month or so, but it is always easier >to make these judgments in retrospect rather than at the time :-) >Anyway, we are going to try to make very sure that the 3.10 distribution >is in good shape before the public release. So far, the experience with >3.10a looks very encouraging, so we are hoping for a relativly early >public release if all continues to go well. > Robert, I think that you are using my innocent query as a vehicle to make a somewhat less than innocent point! The issue is that there was a problem with the release. It doesn't neccesarily mean that 3.10 should be delayed! :-) Regards, Jason. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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