Re: Trying to fix Ada LRM for PC?

Re: Trying to fix Ada LRM for PC?

[Esther Lumsdon]

dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Heracleitus) writes:

>  Has anyone fixed the Ada LRM that is found in the simtel archives
>(and oak and wuarchive)?  I retrieved the LRM program for the PC from
>various sources, and all behaved the same.  I am running ANSI.SYS on
>my PC, and the LRM.EXE file, but every search for a specific section
>number, e.g., 13.1.4, finds something else, like 13.9.8 or so.
>Obviously, the searching algorithm is off, and I'd like to know if
>there's a fix, or if I'm the only one having this problem.  I'd also
>like to know the address of the program author at Norfolk State
>University if there is no current fix for the problem.

You're the only person who has reported a problem.  Given the tendency
of Ada vendors to ship windowy readers for LRM these days, I suspect
that few people will ever use this program.

I am no longer employed by Norfolk State.  I submitted this program 
to SIMTEL in 1988, and have not modified it since.  Your report
surprises me, because I thought I tested this sort of stuff back in
1988.  I can test under a VADS 6.1 compiler, to see if I can duplicate 
your problem.  However, I do not have an Ada compiler for an MS-DOS 
machine, or an MS-DOS machine usable for programming.  If this problem 
is specific to MS-DOS, I don't have the resources to do anything about it.
-- 
------ Esther Lumsdon  Product Support Engineer, Verdix Corporation
  205 Van Buren St  Herndon, Virginia, USA
  esther@verdix.com  or  esther%verdix.com@uunet.uu.net

Re: Trying to fix Ada LRM for PC?

[saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU!dtl]

  Thanks for your reply.  I told Mr. Harrison how I fixed the problem
earlier this week.  It seems some of the ANSI chapters of the LRM in the
SIMTEL20 msdos/ada directory's ADALRM-1, -2, -3, and -4.ARC were in
error somehow, and when I replaced them with the files from SIMTEL20 ada
(not msdos/ada), the LRM.EXE program worked.  I will post this fix to the
usenet as well, although I suspect it will have little impact.

Doug Lamb
University of Virginia
dtl8v@Virginia.EDU