Re: Ada Tutor Web Site Shutting Down

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

John Herro <johnherro@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 29, 2:00 am, qunying <zhu.quny...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I feel the same as Brad that your tutorial is the best out there.
>> Thank you for your effort and provided it as a shareware and now open
>> it.
>>
>> Would like to confirm is version 4.01 the latest?
>
> Thanks for your kind words!  Yes, 4.01 is the latest.  Now that my
> program is in the public domain, I'd like to see someone translate it
> from DOS to HTML, so it will run in a Web browser rather than a
> command window.  Also, perhaps someone could update it for versions of
> Ada later than Ada95.

For everyone's info:

If you follow the instructions, Adatutor builds just fine on Mac OS X
with GCC 4.6.0.

A couple of minor glitches at runtime (in a Term window):

(a) I had to rewrite USERDATA.TXT to use the Unix LF line ending instead
of the supplied CRLF.

(b) The window started out black-on-black, not so legible, so I suggest
producing a new USERDATA.TXT containing

122
7
0
0

for starters. 'S' (or, I think, 's') changes screen colours.

(c) Lots of references on help screens etc to John Herro! Clearly no
longer valid.


NB, I've only gone as far as the second screen, may be more CRLF issues
later on.