Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen]

Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
�You have to blow things up to get anything useful.�
                                  -- Archchancellor Ridcully

Re: Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Georg Bauhaus]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:58 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
> Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe

Google turns up pages that hint to Roxio UDF reading software,
or to a UDF filesystem module for the Linux kernel...

Re: Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Anh Vo]

On Jul 16, 3:58 am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
> Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
> Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe
>
The CD-ROM contains eight *.pdf files and Readme.tx file on top
directory. The nested directory contains sources and executables and
more Ada sources at the further nested directory.

AV

Re: Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Markus E Leypold]

> On Jul 16, 3:58 am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>> Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
>> Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:
>>
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe
>>
> The CD-ROM contains eight *.pdf files and Readme.tx file on top
> directory. The nested directory contains sources and executables and
> more Ada sources at the further nested directory.

Considering that UDF is supported in Linux from 2.6 upwards and in
Windows from Vista, distributing a UDF disc seems a bit premature of
the publisher. And expecting people to install a driver from a book CD
... well, bad attitude. Furthermore I don't see the advantages of UDF
vs ISO 9660 if one is only distributing 7 files with (presumably)
short 7 bit file names.

Regards -- Markus

Re: Empty "Programming in Ada 2005" CD-ROM?

[Simon Wright]

Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

>> On Jul 16, 3:58 am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
>>> Is my computer completely wrong?  Or can it be true that the CD-ROM in
>>> Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" only contains these two files:
>>>
>>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root    43 2001-07-16 21:29 autorun.inf
>>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 40960 2002-12-17 14:31 udfrchk.exe
>>>
>> The CD-ROM contains eight *.pdf files and Readme.tx file on top
>> directory. The nested directory contains sources and executables and
>> more Ada sources at the further nested directory.
>
> Considering that UDF is supported in Linux from 2.6 upwards and in
> Windows from Vista, distributing a UDF disc seems a bit premature of
> the publisher. And expecting people to install a driver from a book CD
> ... well, bad attitude. Furthermore I don't see the advantages of UDF
> vs ISO 9660 if one is only distributing 7 files with (presumably)
> short 7 bit file names.

No good on a Mac either -- unless the user is prepared to shell out
$50 for a reader tool (he free one I found didn't work.) I went to the
publisher's web site, no errata page I could see but I left a message
suggesting they at least put the CD content on their site!