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ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 Ada (tm) Software Repository (ASR) Newsletter Issue 5, August 1986 Richard Conn, Newsletter Editor Published by Echelon, Inc. THIS ISSUE Page I. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST ... 1 A. Master Index to the Ada Software Repository B. Ada EXPO '86 II. GENERAL INFORMATION 2 A. Ada 1988 B. Ada Information Clearinghouse Bulletin Board C. An Interesting Topic: the Cray 3 D. The DDN as a Resource: the List of Lists E. The JALCF Newsletter III. NEWS ITEMS CONCERNING THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY 5 A. Export Controls B. New Format for Online and Hardcopy Documentation C. NOSC-TOOLS Directory Dropped D. Growth of the Ada Software Repository E. Tape Distribution IV. NEW SUBMISSIONS IN JULY 10 ============================================================================== I. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST ... A. Master Index to the Ada Software Repository. The Master Index of the Ada Software Repository (ASR) is a loose-leaf book which contains details on (1) each item of software and (2) each item (file) of information in the ASR. Each item of software is described by an abstract, information on the host compiler/operating system and target environment, and a listing of all associated files and their locations in the ASR. Each item of infor- mation is described by an abstract and a listing of all associated files. The Master Index breaks down the ASR into the following major categories, each presented as separate chapters: o ASR-Specific Information and Programs o Artificial Intelligence o Benchmarks o Communications o Reusable Software Components o Data Base Management o Documentation o Graphics o Project Management o Ada Software Development Tools o Other Tools o the WIS Ada Tool Set Selected items of information from the ASR are included in the Master Index. These items include the Welcome Message, which gives an extensive introduction to the Ada Software Repository (its operation and use) and the Defense Data Network (with emphasis on the use of FTP to transfer files from the archives on SIMTEL20). Appendices include (1) a Snapshot of the ASR (ADA.SNP) which names each directory of the ASR and gives the total size of its contents in terms of bytes and lines of code, (2) a listing of all files in each Page 1 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 directory of the ASR with file sizes and CRC data (ADA.CRCLST), and (3) a listing of all files in each directory of the ASR with file sizes, line counts, and PAGER hashes (ADA.RPT). The Master Index includes a complete table of contents, which is helpful in quickly locating specific items of interest, and an extensive index. The first publication of the Master Index exceeded 400 pages. As the ASR grows, updates to the Master Index will be issued. The loose- leaf format of the Master Index was selected to facilite the update process and to permit the users to assemble the Master Index and the ASR Newsletters conveniently in loose-leaf notebooks. The Master Index is available only through Echelon, Inc. The ASR News- letters may be obtained from the ASR in the directory PD:<ADA.NEWS> or by hardcopy subscription through Echelon, Inc. The price of the 428-page Master Index is $49.95, and the Master Index will be available by the end of August. B. Ada EXPO '86. Ada Expo '86 is a major exposition featuring vendor exhibits, seminars, and tutorials which will be held at the Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, WV, from 17 to 21 November, 1986. The November AdaJUG/SIGADA joint meeting will be held in conjunction with Ada EXPO '86. The meeting will include a comprehensive educational program, which includes a presentation on the Ada Software Repository, and a large Ada vendor/applica- tions exhibit which features educational tools, developmental tools, and other products available for the Ada language. The meeting is being co-sponsored by Senator Robert Byrd and the Software Valley Corporation. Registration forms and further information may be obtained from: Ada Expo '86 Attn: Becca Essman PO Box 868 Frederick, MD 21701 301/662-9400 ============================================================================== II. GENERAL INFORMATION A. Ada 1988. From John B. Goodenough (GOODENOUGH@A.ISI.EDU): "I have noted an increasing number of references to Ada88, with the implication that somehow there will be a revised Ada Standard issued in 1988. In my opinion, it is highly unlikely that a revised Standard would complete the revision and approval process before some time in the 1990s. The only reason for referring to 1988 is that ANSI requires that each of its Standards be reviewed every 5 years to see if the Standard is still useful or if a revision is contemplated. There is no requirement that a revision be prepared every 5 years. You may have noticed that the FORTRAN and COBOL Standards tend to be revised every ten years. I see no reason why Ada should have a quicker schedule. "Of course the process of preparing a revision can (and should) begin well before an anticipated approval date. And it is useful for members of the Ada community to present and discuss possible language deficiencies and improvements. However, there has been a general feeling among members of the Ada Board that it was premature to start official work leading to a revision of the ANSI/MIL-STD before the International Standard for Ada has been approved (which has not yet occurred, but which should occur soon). Similarly, WG9, the Working Group responsible for the International Standard, directed that the Ada Language Maintenance Committee be restricted to recommending Page 2 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 interpretations of the Standard. The issue of whether and how to consider revisions was deferred until at least 1987. "In short, it is more accurate to refer to a revised Standard as Ada 9x instead of as Ada88." B. Ada Information Clearinghouse Bulletin Board. From Karl A. Nyberg (grebyn!karl@seismo.css.gov): "The following message is forwarded from the staff at the Ada Information Clearinghouse. I have just tested this procedure out, and found it to be working. The Bulletin Board System appears to be an IBMPC. Ada INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE SPONSORS BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM FOR NON-DDN USERS "Access to the Ada20 Information directories is now limited to authorized DDN users only. Authorized DDN users can obtain instructions on accessing general information files by reading the file <Ada-Info>DDN-Access.hlp. This file may be accessed via "type" by Ada20 users, or via anonymous FTP by users on other hosts. "Non-DDN users may now access Ada Information files via a dial-up bulletin board service. The Ada Information Bulletin Board system can be accessed by dialing (202) 694-0215, at either 300 or 1200 baud. Users should set their telecommunications software to operate with no parity, eight data bits and one stop bit. The system initially answers the telephone at 1200 baud, no parity, eight data bits (XMODEM), and 1 stop bit. It then waits to receive 3 slow carriage returns to match baud rate, parity, and number of data bits. "NOTE: The Ada Information Bulletin Board system is being implemented on a trial basis. Not all capabilities are fully supported. To report problems, or for additional information on the use of the bulletin board, please contact the Ada Information Clearinghouse at (703) 685-1477. Mary Armstrong Ada Information Clearinghouse" C. An Interesting Topic: the Cray 3. From 23-Jun-86 "Electronics" magazine (thanks to Bill Westfield for pointing this out): "Cray Research Inc intends to drop its traditional labor-intensive approach to building supercomputers in favor of automation. ... Instead of humans hooking up the rat's nest of wires inside the machines, specialized robots built to Cray design will handle a variety of Cray-3 manufacturing jobs, ranging from the dicing of the gallium arsenide wafers into the custom GaAs chips to be used in the system to the actual wire interconnection. Prompting the move is the extreme miniturization of the machine: A FULL-BLOWN 16-PROCESSOR CRAY-3 SYSTEM WITH 64 MEMORY MODULES WILL BE PACKED INTO LESS THAN ONE CUBIC FOOT OF SPACE, excluding power supply. No wire in the Cray-3 will be longer than 3 in. ... The Cray-3, when delivered in 1988 or 1989, is expected to exceed by 10 times the performance of the current-generation Cray- 2, which has a peak rating of 1.2 billion floating- point operations/s." D. The DDN as a Resource: the List of Lists. The Defense Data Network is a fantastic resource, supporting both electronic mail and electronic file transfer between its myriad of users. Many active bulletin boards (electronic mail lists) exist on the DDN, and it is of value to be aware of them. A file, called the "List of Lists," exists on SIMTEL20 which details all of these Page 3 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 electronic mail lists. The "List of Lists" file is contained in the directory PS:<BBOARD> as the file INTEREST-GROUPS.DOC. This file is currently 136,385 bytes long. The following electronic mail lists are covered by this file. The full "List of Lists" file should be consulted for a complete description of these electronic mail lists. ADA-SW INFO-JAPAN NORTHSTAR-USERS AI-ED[ucation] INFO-KERMIT NUKE-WINTER AILIST INFO-LAPTOPS OPSYS AMETHYST-USERS INFO-LAW PACKET-RADIO APOLLO INFO-MAC PARSYM ARMS-D INFO-MACFORTH PC-Token-Ring ARPA-MHS INFO-MICRO PCIP (PC TCP/IP) ARPANET-BBOARDS INFO-MODEM7 PHILOSOPHY-OF-SCIENCE ASM370 INFO-MODULA-2 PHYSICS Astronomy Events INFO-NETS POLI-SCI AVIATION INFO-PASCAL PROLOG/PROLOG-HACKERS BIZARRE-PEOPLE INFO-PCNET ProtocolS CA (cullular automata)INFO-POSTSCRIPT Psychnet (see EPSYNET) CADinterest INFO-PRINTERS PUP-LOVERS CBMLIST INFO-PYRAMID RAILROAD CLUSTER INFO-RIDGE REXX Forum Computers and Society INFO-RSTS RISKS CUBE-LOVERS INFO-SEQUENT SCHEME Cyber-L INFO-TERMS SCRIBE-HACKS Dead-Heads INFO-/BUG-TI-EXPLORER SECURITY EDITOR-PEOPLE INFO-TMODEM/BUG-TMODEM SELF-ORGANIZATION EPSYNET (Psychnet) INFO-UNIX SERVERS EVOLUTION INFO-V (V dist op sys) SF-CONS LIST FANZINE INFO-VAX SF-LOVERS FIGIL (FORTH Int Grp) INFO-VLSI SKY-FANS FIREARMS INFO-XENIX310 SMAUG FRANZ-FRIENDS INFO-XLISP SOFT-ENG GOULDBUGS InfoCDC SPACE HEADER-PEOPLE INTEREST-GROUPS LIST STD-UNIX HEATH-PEOPLE IRLIST SUN-SPOTS HEALTH-NET KILLER SYMBOLIC MATH HORSE L-5 TCP-IP HUMAN-NETS L-HCAP (handicapped) TECHNICAL RPTS REDIST'N ICON-GROUP LAN-News TELECOM INFO-1100/BUG-1100 LASER-LOVERS TEXHAX INFO-68K LINGUA (comp langs) TheoryNet INFO-ADA LIST OF MAILING LISTS TOPS-20 INFO-AOS LOVE-HOUNDS UNIX-EMACS INFO-AMIGA Mail-Men UNIX-SOURCES INFO-APPLE mailjc UNIX-SW INFO-APPLEBUS MER.SIGBIG (supercomp) UNIX-TeX INFO-ATARI[8/16] METAPHILOSOPHERS UNIX-WIZARDS INFO-BITGRAPH MH-USERS V2LNI-PEOPLE INFO-BLIT MH-WORKERS VECTREX-PEOPLE Page 4 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 INFO-C MHS (X.400) implement VIDEOTECH INFO-CPM MILSIM VISION INFO-DEC-MICRO MMM-PEOPLE VPLLIST INFO-FUTURES MsgGroup WELDCOMP INFO-GRAPHICS MUS (Masscomp Users) WorkS [tations] INFO-HAMS NA (numerical anal) XPERT INFO-HZ100 NAMEDROPPERS XPORT INFO-IBMPC NIHONGO INFO-IRIS To subscribe to a list, ask questions, or address other administrative matters, send electronic mail to list-REQUEST@host (e.g., HEADER-PEOPLE-REQUEST@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU or ADA-SW-REQUEST@SIMTEL20.ARPA). This message goes to the moderator of the list, rather than to the membership of the entire mailing list. E. The JALCF Newsletter. The JOVIAL/Ada Language Control Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base publishes an outstanding newsletter which contains information of interest to the Ada community. There is no subscription cost, and subscriptions may be requested by: 1. Calling the LCF Newsletter Coordinator at 513/255-4472 or AUTOVON 785-4472. 2. Sending conventional mail to ASD/SIOL Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-6503. 3. Sending electronic mail to LCF@WPAFB-JALCF Some of the items in the July 1986 issue of this newsletter include: 1. Details on: ACT Ada/1750A Cross Compiler ADADL and DOC-GEN Alsys Ada Compiler for PCs DDC International and Control Data Corp Ada Compiler Agreement Intellimac Ruggedized Ada Compiler SAIC and Alsys Ada Compiler Telesoft and Prime Computer Ada Software Contract Telesoft's TeleGen 2 Compiler 2. Procedures for Obtaining Ada Compiler Validation Capability (ACVC) Tapes and Diskettes 3. List of Ada Texts 4. List of Validated Ada Compilers ============================================================================== III. NEWS ITEMS CONCERNING THE ADA SOFTWARE REPOSITORY A. Export Controls. The following is a message from Chris McDonald, as addressed to Frank Wancho and Rick Conn. This message was sent in response to the messages posted on the DDN about concern over Export Control Laws of the United States. "Gentlemen, I read all of the messages. I fell vindicated that I with your cooperation had anticipated a concern which both Doug and Sam have expressed. "First, if we agree--as we did in the matter of releasing the repository Page 5 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 to foreign nationals and to foreign governments--that the repository consists of "public domain" material, then it is difficult to envision how export control regulations will be applicable. By definition, the US government is attempting to control the export of "significant and critical" technology. If that technology is in the "public domain," it would seem contradictory to belive that one can either control it or would want to control it. For example, the algorithm on the Data Encryption Standard (DES), used for the protection of unclassified sensitive data, is in the public domain. The algorithm is available to foreign governments and to foreign nationals, regardless of any political relationship to the US. Hardware devices, which implement the software implementation of DES, are export controlled because the "device" is not in the "public domain" given that individual companies have established patents and copyrights on their own products. It is also difficult to envision that someone would at this late date want to classify ADA software as "significant and critical" given that the whole tenor of the development has been to maximize public distribution. "Second, my copy of the list of items to be controlled--contained very inconveniently in a classified document--addresses broad categories of technology. ADA is not even mentioned. "Third, we have documented our current releases procedures on the ADA repository to the extent necessary to meet Army requirements which in turn implement DoD directives. "Four, before we get hung up on ADA, consider DDN itself. Last year I asked the DDN Project Office to answer a simple question on export control directed against the network itself. Specifically, since foreign nationals and foreign hosts access DDN, what about export control, particularly when "ftp" anonymous accounts exist throughout the network? I followed up three times and never got an answer. I gave up in total frustration. My point is that we have at least addressed the issue for ADA. I would propose that this has not been done for the network itself as a whole. "Five, originators have the decision to determine what is "significant and critical" within the context of broad guidelines. System administrators can question originators or security types like me can question--as I did in the case of the repository. But, when originiators do not perceive any requirement to impose restrictions, and when we as administrators/security types can determine no policy requirement to impose restrictions, one has reached a point where one can legitimately and with a clear conscience say "ENOUGH!" "It is nice to see other individuals expressing a concern which I share. I would think that in this particular case there is not a problem." As additional material of interest, the August 1986 issue of "The Institute" by the IEEE (this is Vol 10, Number 8) has a front-page article entitled "Air Force Proposal to Restrict Databases Faces Stiff Opposition". From the article: "The IEEE has strongly opposed a tentative plan by the U.S. Air Force to restrict the access of non-U.S. citizens to unclassified electronic databases. "As part of their ongoing effort to keep Soviet bloc agents from learning about U.S. high technology, Air Force officials are considering restricting both Government databases -- like the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Commerce Department -- and private services -- such as Chemical Abstracts ... and Lockheed Corp.'s Dialog ... . "The Air Force has proposed that unclassifed but "sensitive" Page 6 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 information ... be removed from these open databases and placed in a special one that only U.S. citizens could access." The article goes on ... "Restrictions could help Soviets "In a letter to the Air Force in May, Benjamin J. Leon, chairman of the IEEE Technology Transfer Committee, stated: "Any restrictions placed on access to these databases would impede the ability of the United States to advance both military and civilian technology." "Leon suggested that creating a special database with sensitive information might actually hinder allies of the United States and help its adversaries. "Free World engineers may find it easier to redo the work rather than to make application for access to export-controlled information," Leon wrote. "However, the Eastern bloc countries, discovering this source of valuable information in one repository, will likely expend substantial amounts of money to gain access to the database, with certain success." Later in the article ... "Kenneth Allen, vice president of government relations for the Information Industries Association, said the association is forming a group of members to "deal with the issue." The IIA is "very concerned" about potential restrictions, he said. Allen is also organizing a seminar on the proposed database restrictions this fall, with speakers from the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, and other groups that he said share the IIA's concern." Finally ... "The Air Force's study of electronic databases did not derive from specific incidents ... so much as from "concern about technology transfer in general." "That concern was summed up ... in a report issued by the Departement of Defense last year, called "Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology: An Update." "The report charged that "Western products and technology secrets are being systematically acquired by intricately organized, highly effective collection programs specifically targeted to improve Soviet military weapon systems. ... Targets include defense contractors, manufacturers, foreign trading firms, academic institutions, and electronic databases." "The report also singled out several IEEE meetings for allegedly having helped the Soviets build better radar systems ... The DOD has never offered any evidence to support these claims." B. New Format for Online and Hardcopy Documentation. I made several modifications, including writing several new programs to support the modifications, to the online doc/hardcopy doc system on SIMTEL20. These modifications are reflected in both the online doc data base file HELP.DAT and the Master Index book. Each item of software and documentation in the ASR is presented in a consistent fashion. For the software, each entry indicates the compiler and target along with an abstract. A sample: Page 7 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 FTP Machine/System Compiled/Run on: Telesoft 1.5 (unvalidated), WICAT/ROS Abstract : These tools provide the ability to transfer files and to send and receive mail among users on diverse hosts. File transfer will use Ada SEQUENTIAL_IO calls to read and write files and will interface to TCP(CDRL 0001) to send data across communication lines and will interface to Telnet to send and receive all commands and replies. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol to be implemented is RFC821. Additionally, the directory displays are in a more useful format: Directory: PD:<ADA.DDN> FTP.COM 1080 FTP.PRO 3733 FTP.SRC 375318 FTPBATCH.COM 548 FTPSMTP.CMM 1253 IFACE.COM 512 IFACE.SRC 48820 IFACEBAT.COM 570 USERNAMES.LCL 66 WICATMISC.SRC 102526 USERSMAN.DIS 103 USERSMAN.DOC 105163 =============== ========== 12 Files 639692 All files associated with a given piece of software are listed with that software, even if they are not in the same directory. All in all, I think that this represents a useful improvement to the system. All 130 software items are covered in this same, consistent manner. Other new tools produce the following reports as the ASR is updated: In PD:<ADA> -- ADA.CRCLST -- listing of all files by directory with -- sizes and CRC ADA.RPT -- listing of all files by directory with -- sizes, line counts, and PAGER hash FILEUSE.DOC -- listing of all files by number of accesses In PD:<ADA.ONLINE-DOC> -- HELP.DAT -- data base file containing listings of -- of all files with abstracts; can be processed -- and reviewed by the online documentation system -- software Page 8 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 In PD:<ADA.WIS-ADA-TOOLS> -- ABSTRACT.DOC -- listing of all WIS Ada Tools by tool number -- with file sizes and abstracts CONTENTS.DOC -- listing of all WIS Ada Tools by tool number -- with file sizes REFFILES.DOC -- listing of all WIS Ada Tools by tool number -- with file sizes and contract information C. NOSC-TOOLS Directory Dropped. The directory PD:<ADA.NOSC-TOOLS> has been deleted. Its only content was a README.DOC file which referenced PD:<ADA.WIS-ADA-TOOLS>. D. Growth of the Ada Software Repository. The ASR has been growing rapidly over the last few months: March, 1986 over 3,000K bytes April, 1986 over 3,000K bytes May, 1986 under 100K bytes June, 1986 over 3,500K bytes July, 1986 over 300K bytes G. Tape Distribution. A tape distribution of the entire ASR is available from White Sands. The next set of master tapes will be prepared soon, and two tapes will be required (rather than just one as described in the following file). I'll notify you after the requirement changes. The intent is to clear out the current backlog before switching to the new masters. The file TAPEDIST.DOC: Tape copies of the files in PD:<ADA*> may be made on 9TRK, 1600 BPI tapes in TOPS-20 DUMPER, TOPS-10 INTERCHANGE, and Unix tar formats. Send a tape, a stamped, self-addressed mailing label, and a short, informal cover letter stating that you would like a copy of this collection and specifying the format. Personnel at White Sands will make the tape at their convenience and mail it back to you. There is no charge for this service. Please use the following address to send your tape. White Sands cannot accept cash, checks, money orders or purchase orders. Send sufficient return postage in stamps. Commander USA White Sands Missile Range STEWS-IM-CM-S (Bldg. 362, Frank Wancho) White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 88002-5072 DDN electronic mail address is WANCHO@SIMTEL20. Frank's telephone number is 505/678-6257. Page 9 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 ============================================================================== IV. NEW SUBMISSIONS IN JULY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Cody-Waite Math Library Files and Sizes (in Bytes): Directory: PD:<ADA.MATH> CODYWAITE.DOC 13104 CODYWAITE.PRO 2504 CODYWAITE.SRC 77400 CODYWAITE.TST 106938 =============== ========== 4 Files 199946 Machine/System Compiled/Run on : Rational R1000, VAX (DEC), others Abstract : A set of elementary math functions (generic on digits <>) corres- ponding to the FORTRAN intrinsic functions. The implementation of the body uses the truncated polynominals method of Cody and Waite. This is a set of easily understood code meant to be machine independent. They are not particularly fast. They could be optimized for particular machines. A fairly extensive set of test procedures is also provided. The available functions and constants are: Pi : constant := 3.14159_26535_89793_23846_26433_83279_50288_41972; E : constant := 2.71828_18284_59045_23536_02874_71352_66249_77572; Log_Of_2 : constant := 0.69314_71805_59945_30941_72321_24158_17656_80755; Log_Of_10 : constant := 2.30258_50929_94045_68401_77914_54684_36420_76011; function Sign (X, Y : Floating) return Floating; -- Returns the value of X with the sign of Y function Max (X, Y : Floating) return Floating; -- Returns the algebraicly larger of X and Y function Min (X, Y : Floating) return Floating; -- Returns the algebraicly smaller of X and Y function Truncate (X : Floating) return Floating; -- Returns the floating value of the integer no larger than X -- Truncates toward zero function Round (X : Floating) return Floating; -- Returns the floating value of the integer nearest X procedure Set_Ran_Key (K : in Floating := Floating (0.0)); -- Can reset the random number generator function Ran return Floating; -- A random number between zero and one function Sqrt (X : Floating) return Floating; function Cbrt (X : Floating) return Floating; function Log (X : Floating) return Floating; function Log10 (X : Floating) return Floating; function Exp (X : Floating) return Floating; function "**" (X, Y : Floating) return Floating; Page 10 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 function Sin (X : Floating) return Floating; function Cos (X : Floating) return Floating; function Tan (X : Floating) return Floating; function Cot (X : Floating) return Floating; function Asin (X : Floating) return Floating; function Acos (X : Floating) return Floating; function Atan (X : Floating) return Floating; function Atan2 (V, U : Floating) return Floating; function Sinh (X : Floating) return Floating; function Cosh (X : Floating) return Floating; function Tanh (X : Floating) return Floating; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. List of Validated Ada Compilers PD:<ADA.POINTERS> now contains the latest list (18 July) of validated Ada compilers. There are 55 compilers, including two for the 1750. File: PD:<ADA.POINTERS>COMPILERS.INF 28,824 Bytes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Kermit Documentation Files and Sizes (in bytes): Directory: PD:<ADA.GENERAL> KERCOMM.DOC 6974 Commercial Use of Kermit KERFLYER.DOC 13588 General Information KERMICRO.DOC 28992 Using Kermit with Microcomputers KERMIT.DOC 16560 General Information KEROPS.DOC 16822 Listing of Kermit Implementations by OS =============== ========== 5 Files 82936 These files contain information on the KERMIT file transfer protocol. KERMIT is a very robust protocol which has been recommended by the Network Information Center (NIC) of the Defense Data Network (DDN) for file transfers from DDN host computers to personal computers through the DDN. Designed by Columbia University, KERMIT is useful in moving files from your DDN host computer into your local computing environment for use at your facility (if, of course, your DDN host computer is not your local computer). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Contents to Master Index A copy of the table of contents (five pages) of the Master Index to the ASR has been placed in PD:<ADA.GENERAL>: Directory: PD:<ADA.GENERAL> MINDEX.TOC 20599 =============== ========== 1 Files 20599 Page 11 ASR Newsletter, Issue 5, August 1986 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Comment Files Updated Comment files (CMM and CMn, where n=1 .. 9) are an important form of documentation in the Ada Software Repository. These files are submitted by users and detail problems and other items of interest associated with software in the ASR. The following comments files were added to the ASR: PD:<ADA.AI>ALSP.CM2 -- for LISP Routine package PD:<ADA.PDL>GAD.CM2 -- for Graphical Ada Design software ============================================================================== Ada is a registered trademark, U.S. Government - Ada Joint Program Office. The following are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation: DEC, DECSYSTEM-20, ULTRIX, VAX, VMS. UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. The following are trademarks of Data General Corporation: AOS, ROLM. Verdix is a trademark of Verdix Corporation. TeleGen2 and TeleSoft are trademarks of TeleSoft. The Ada Software Repository Newsletter is Copyright 1986 Echelon, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission to reprint, wholly or partially, is automatically granted if source credit is given to Echelon. Echelon, Inc. 885 N. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022 USA Telephone: 415/948-3820 Page 12