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- From: courtel@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Nicolas Courtel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Announcing PARADISE version 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.134206.5394@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 13:42:06 GMT
- Sender: news@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr
- Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne, Toulouse, France
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- Paradise is a set of Ada packages intended to provide an interface to the Unix
- operating system, and more specifically to the communication routines, that
- are accessed via file descriptors. It lets the Ada programmer use files, pipes,
- and sockets, as well as signals, error codes, environment variables, etc...,
- using an interface that looks as much as possible like the C interface.
-
- Paradise supports multi-tasking: any input or output is blocking for the
- calling task only, and not for the entire process.
-
- Paradise is intended to be system-independant and compiler-independant; so far,
- it works on two environments:
- - SunOS (Sparc) and Verdix compiler
- - HP-UX (HP9000/700) and Alsys compiler
-
- This version of Paradise is very different from the previous versions:
- - it is not compatible
- - it has not been ported on the same environments
- - it does not work the same way
- However, it does offer about the same functionalities, and a porting manual
- is provided in the documentation.
-
- For people who would like to port it to other environments, informations on
- portability are displayed inside the code. A programmer's guide should appear
- in future versions.
-
- The source code is available on ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr, in directory
- pub/export:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 50 32 241167 Dec 22 13:10 paradise-3.0.tar.Z
-
- Send all comments, bug reports, patches to "paradise@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr".
- (I won't read them before next year, though :-)
- --
- Nicolas Courtel - courtel@dgac.fr
-
- >>> The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. <<<
- >>> The goal of nature is to build better mice. <<<
-