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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,11d39408e66ea211 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-20 11:38:11 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!nntp.uib.no!gisle From: gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E6lensminde?=) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT Question Date: 20 Mar 2001 19:37:03 GMT Organization: University of Bergen Message-ID: References: <7wLt6.19470$bL.1855137@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: apal.ii.uib.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 985117023 33770 129.177.16.7 (20 Mar 2001 19:37:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Mar 2001 19:37:03 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (SunOS) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5921 Date: 2001-03-20T19:37:03+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ted Dennison wrote: >In article <7wLt6.19470$bL.1855137@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx >says... >> Does anyone know if i can use GNAT to do OS work? I don't mean writing >.. >>from C anyway. Can I link DJGPP with Ada? That might be a temp solution. > >There was a DOS/DJGPP version of Gnat one upon a time. Its probably still >floating around somewhere. The most recent version I could find was 3.10p at >ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/private/old/ez2load/3.10/ . I don't know if it can >build programs that don't need DOS though. I'd be really interested in finding >out myself. If you find out the answer, please tell me here or at my telepath >address. The GNAT for DOS team at www.gnuada.org seems to have newer ports around. See their homepage. These ports are not supported or maintained by ACT. They seems to have an alpha release of 3.13p and a stable relese of 3.12p. -- Gisle S�lensminde ( gisle@ii.uib.no ) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. (from RFC 1925)