From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d7e592f9390e0746 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-20 14:03:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B815D9C.9C22AA7A@san.rr.com> Subject: Re: Where's the goodies? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:50:24 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:50:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12140 Date: 2001-08-20T20:50:24+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B815D9C.9C22AA7A@san.rr.com>, Darren New says... > >and such. What I'll definitely need is byte-oriented I/O to files and >sockets (i.e., raw binary files), as well as access to directories and I should point out that this can be done portably with the routines in Ada.Streams.Stream_IO and Ada.Streams.Write and Ada.Streams.Read. >My question is, where's the goodies? These things have to be out there, >but there's no documentation about them in the GNAT distribution that If you are on Windows and installed to the default place, you have a full Win32 binding in c:/GNAT/Bindings/Win32Ada . Of course you can only legally use it if you have a licensed copy of the C header files (eg: VC++). The rest of the included stuff is in c:/GNAT/lib/gcc-lib/pentium-mingw32msv/2.8.1/adainclude (I know what you are saying, "Why didn't I think to look there?" :-) ). The file names are kinda cryptic. Look particularly at all the g-* files, as those are the "Gnat" hierarchy. "g-regexp" for instance is the regular-expression matching stuff. As for stuff that *doesn't* come with Gnat, check out my homepage for a small selection that I use (if you find dead links, tell me). Also check out http://www.adapower.com/reuse/index.html --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com