Xref: news-dnh.mv.net comp.edu:3822 comp.lang.ada:13876 comp.os.msdos.djgpp:3792 comp.software-eng:11935 Path: news-dnh.mv.net!mv!news.sprintlink.net!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!apollo.hp.com!lf.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!brutus.bright.net!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.software-eng,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: New Release of ez2load Package of Ada Stuff for DOS Date: 11 Dec 1995 23:18:28 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Lines: 175 Nntp-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Third Release of GW ez2load Ada Compiler and Tutorial Kit for MS-DOS ------------------------------------------------------------------ December 10, 1995 (Happy Birthday, Lady Ada Lovelace) ----------------- Michael B. Feldman (mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu) Charles A. Kann (ckann AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 (202) 994-5919 (voice) (202) 994-0227 (fax) In celebration of the birthday of Lady Ada Lovelace, Dec. 10, 1815, we are happy to announce the third release of ez2load, an easy-install kit of free Ada 83 and Ada 95 compilers and editors, and a shareware tutorial for Ada 95. This kit is intended primarily for distribution on the forthcoming new release of the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM, but it is equally useful as an ftp or diskette distribution. New in this release: ------------------- - Improved and extended versions of the AdaCAPS (DOS) and AdaIDE (Windows 3.1) editor/development environments. - A new utility which, given a compilable package interface, will produce a skeletal, compilable package body, with syntactically valid skeletal subprogram bodies. - A new release of DRGEN, from Allen Parrish and David Cordes of the University of Alabama. Given a compiled package, DRGEN will produce an interactive test harness for unit-testing the package. - A new release of David Wheeler's Lovelace, a free Ada 95 tutorial in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). A copy of the Cello HTML browser for Windows is included. - Finally, the editors and other tools are packaged in two ways: first, as an inherent part of the gnat*.zip files, and second, for those who already have GNAT 2.06 installed, in two zipfiles tools1.zip and tools2.zip. If you need only the new tools, download these two files _and_ the .exe and .scr files. You do not need the other zipfiles. The GNAT compiler is still at release 2.06. We hope to release a newer version of GNAT on DOS in the near future. ez2load is available by anonymous ftp at ftp.gwu.edu, pub/ada/ez2load, and also in the Public Ada LIbrary at wuarchive.wustl.edu (and numerous mirror sites), languages/ada/compiler/ez2load. Included in the ez2load kit are: ------------------------------- - a menu-driven installer program - GW-Ada/Ed, an integrated Ada 83 environment that provides an excellent way to get started with Ada. This system incorporates an editor, compiler and virtual-code interpreter, and a very useful multi-window runtime monitor. Several directories of interesting example programs are provided, including some nice programs to demonstrate Ada's multitasking capabilities. Based on NYU's Ada/Ed compiler, GW-Ada/Ed was developed by Charles Kann, GW doctoral student, and Arthur Vargas Lopes, a GW graduate now of Porto Alegre, Brazil. - GNAT (GNU/NYU Ada Translator) for DOS, an Ada 95 compiler that runs under djgpp (GCC for DOS) and provides a nearly-complete implementation of Ada 95. (Tasking is not yet supported in the DOS version of GNAT.) A basic djgpp distribution is included in the kit and installed along with GNAT. GNAT is a product of a team at New York University and elsewhere. - AdaCAPS (Ada Computer-Aided Programming System), an interactive development environment for GNAT. The editor provides full support for multiple re-sizable windows (overlaid or tiled), mouse and keystroke interactions, and single-keystroke invocation of GNAT compilation, binding, and execution commands. Ken Price of Priceless Software, Perpperell, Mass, is the author of this very nice IDE, which has the "look-and-feel" of a Borland "Turbo" product. - AdaIDE (Ada Interactive Development Environment), an IDE that runs under Microsoft Windows 3.1, with the "look-and-feel" of a Microsoft "Visual" product. Errol Martin and Don Overheu of Canberra, Australia, are the authors of this IDE. - a set of simple DOS command-line commands, gcompile/glink/gexecute, which allow new GNAT users to do simple compilation and linking operations, and to execute programs in an environment that produces a neatly-formatted traceback in case of an unhandled exception. These commands are invoked by GW-GNAT and AdaCAPS but can also be run from the DOS command line. Charles Kann is the author. - a fast hypertext Ada 95 Reference Manual. The hypertext RM can be invoked from GW-GNAT, AdaCAPS and AdaIDE or used as a stand-alone program. The author is Arthur Vargas Lopes. - AVLAda9X - a prototype of an integrated, very fast Ada 95 programming environment under development by Arthur Vargas Lopes. - DRGEN - a tool which allows programmers to easily generate driver programs for unit testing Ada packages. This tool was written by Allan Parrish and David Cortes. - Lovelace - A hypertext Ada 95 tutorial by David Wheeler. It includes the Cello web browser. - Ada-Tutor - a shareware package by John Herro, providing computer-aided instruction in Ada 95. This is an excellent package for those wishing to teach themselves Ada 95. All components are free except for Ada-Tutor, which carries a shareware fee if you decide to keep it and use it. Acquiring ez2load by anonymous ftp: ---------------------------------- The ez2load suite is available from ftp.gwu.edu in the directory pub/ada/ez2load, and also from the Public Ada Library (wuarchive.wustl.edu) and its mirrors, in the directory languages/ada/compiler/ez2load. Here are all the files to copy from the ftp directory: README - This readme file ginstall.exe - Program to do the install from a hard disk. dinstall.exe - Program to do the install if you use diskettes. install.scr - This script files gives options to the install program. unzip.exe - unzip, used to unzip distribution files. README.DSK - A readme file to explain how to use this distribution to make a diskette distribution. adaed1.zip adaed2.zip - Zip files containing GW-Ada/Ed. adatutor.zip - Zip file containing adatutor. avlada9x.zip - Zip file containing avlada9x gnat1.zip gnat2.zip gnat3.zip gnat4.zip gnat5.zip - Zip files containing djgpp, GNAT, GW-GNAT, AdaIDE, AdaCAPS, and DRGEN. tools1.zip tools2.zip - separate package containing just the tools above. Download the first six files, and any or all of the zip files, into a "clean" single directory of your choosing, then change to that directory and type "ginstall". The complete distribution occupies about 8.5 megabytes; the unpacked and installed distribution requires about 15 megabytes. You need an MS-DOS computer with an 80386 or better CPU; 4 megabytes minimum RAM, 8 mb preferred. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Discussion group on GNAT: To subscribe, send e-mail to listproc AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu, with an empty subject line and the two-line message subscribe gnatlist help Once you are subscribed, you can send messages to the list by sending e-mail to gnatlist AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu. GNAT discussions also happen on comp.lang.ada. Please be sure to report bugs in GNAT itself to report AT gnat DOT com.