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On 10/2/2014 9:47 PM, Stribor40 wrote:
> On Friday, 3 October 2014 00:34:35 UTC-4, AdaMagica  wrote:
>> On Friday, October 3, 2014 6:01:59 AM UTC+2, Stribor40 wrote:
>>
>>> Generic_Perm.ads             Generic_Perm.adb   Print_Perms.adb
>>
>>> Generic_Perm.adb:1:14: file "generic_perm.ads" not found
>>
>>> gnatmake: "Generic_Perm.adb" compilation error
>>
>>
>>
>> Use lower case for file names.
>
> ok that worked thanks.....didnt know need to be lower cases
>

It doesn't, at least not technically.
The real reason they tell you to use lowercase is that GNAT on the 
case-sensitive OSes can't tell if SomeThing.ads and/or something.ads is 
supposed to be associated with package SOMETHING. -- Incidentally, this 
would be a non issue in a compiler/environment that had the `83-style 
library.