============================================================================== Welcome to the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM! This CDROM is a complete copy of the Public Ada Library (PAL) as of 28 April 1995. There are almost 600 different items on this CDROM, such as the GNAT Ada compiler, the SEI's Capability Maturity Model, and the AdaSAGE development platform. There are four ways to easily find things on this CDROM: 1. Walk the directory tree manually using CD. This works, but there can be a lot of trial and error to it. 2. Walk the directory tree using Mosaic, Netscape, or some other World Wide Web client software. Start at the point ada/index.html. 3. Print out and use the PAL Catalog. This is a catalog of all the items on the CDROM, organized by a taxonomy with an index. For each item, you will find information about the author, certification, copyright and release notes, an abstract, the name of the directory containing the item and a listing of the files associated with the item, and other information. The PAL Catalog is almost 2,000 pages long. 4. Use the interactive PAL Card Catalog. It contains all the information in the PAL Catalog, but it makes the information available for scanning online. The PAL Card Catalog is available in two forms: an Ada program with data files and hypertext (HTML). The Ada program form is in source code and has already been compiled for and is ready to run under MSDOS. To use the Ada form, the file qstart.txt is provided as a short, about 10 minute, tutorial that you can print out and then use to run the PAL Card Catalog program. The hypertext form is ready to run using Mosaic, Netscape, or any other World Wide Web client program. You will find these items in the following locations: PAL Catalog (in ASCII and Postscript) ada/userdocs/catalog See the README and other files here PAL Card Catalog ada/toolkit/all/CARDCAT.ZIP Source code and data files in Ada ada/toolkit/msdos/cardcat/ccat_pc.zip Precompiled to run under MSDOS ada/toolkit/msdos/cardcat/runme CD to here and run CARDCAT to run precompiled version directly from the CDROM; also, the GO.BAT file runs this from the top level of the CDROM; see the file qstart.txt for instructions on how to use this program ada/userdocs/html/cardcat/00_Tax.html PAL Card Catalog in HTML Browsing the CDROM using the World Wide Web ada/pal.html PAL home page ada/pal2.html Shorter PAL home page ada/index.html Directory walker The following are key items you should look at to become familiar with this CDROM and the PAL. For each item, I've named the directory in which it can be found, the file names (if appropriate), and a brief description of the item. Key Topic Areas Introductory Documents ada 00README Read Me! ada 0MANIFEST Manifest Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ada/userdocs/html PAL_FAQ.html PAL FAQ in Hypertext ada 0FAQ PAL FAQ in ASCII Text PAL and CDROM Animated Shows Ready to Run under MSDOS Note: these shows are somewhat entertaining and informative, but, they tend to get out of date. The size numbers of the various items in the PAL were true at one time but are likely to be out of date by now. ada/userdocs/palshow Show on the PAL ada/userdocs/cdshows Various shows on the CDROM SHOW.BAT Runs the show in ada/userdocs/palshow Major Categories ada/compiler Ada Compilers ada/benchmrk Benchmarks ada/bindings Bindings ada/comm Communications ada/crsware Courseware ada/db Database Management Tools ada/distproc Distributed Processing ada/doctools Documentation Development Tools ada/docs Documents ada/misc Miscellaneous Tools ada/mgttools Project Management Tools ada/swcomps Software Components ada/swtools Software Development Tools ada/testing Testing Support ada/userdocs User Documentation (includes PAL activity logs, information that makes up the PAL FAQ, information on copyright and its meaning, information on using the Internet) ada/toolkit User Toolkit (includes versions of ZIP, TAR, and other tools to extract the files on the CDROM for various platforms; also includes Mosaic for Microsoft Windows) Ada95 Documents in Hypertext (HTML) ada/docs/adarm95/rm95html-1.0 rm9x-toc.html Ada95 Reference Manual ada/docs/adarat95/html rat95-contents.html Ada95 Rationale ada/crsware/lovelace/html lovelace.html Lovelace Ada95 Tutorial ada/ajpo/docs/adopt-hbk/95adopt/html toc.html Ada95 Adoption Handbook Mirrors and Copies ada/ajpo Ada Information Clearinghouse mirror ada/asr Ada Software Repository copy ada/sage AdaSAGE Project mirror ada/compiler/gnat GNU NYU Ada95 Translator (GNAT) Project mirror ada/sei Software Engineering Institute mirror vhdl VHDL Repository mirror Enjoy using this CDROM and the PAL! Richard Conn Manager, PAL ============================================================================== This is a TWO DISC set. The second CDROM contains AdaSAGE and VHDL. The first CDROM contains everything else. ============================================================================== Here is a list of some important files and directories: README.TXT This file 0FAQ Frequently asked questions about the Public Ada Archive GO.BAT Startup program for MSDOS view.exe An MSDOS program to search the disc and view files 00_index.txt A list of all the directories on the CDROM ada/00README Information about the Public Ada Library ada/ajpo/ Software collection from the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) ada/aseet/ ada/asr/ The Ada Software Repository from Simtel-20 ada/bindings/ Bindings between Ada and various standards ada/comm/ Tools and components that support communication ada/compiler/ Ada Compilers, Interpreters, and Translators ada/crsware/ Ada-oriented courseware ada/db/ Database tools, such as application generators ada/distproc/ Distributed processing with Ada ada/docs/ documents of interest to the Ada community ada/doctools/ Aids for the production of documentation, like text formatters ada/mgttools/ Project Management tools ada/misc/ ada/sage/ AdaSAGE (On Disc #2) ada/sei/ Software collection from the Software Engineering Inst. (SEI) ada/swcomps/ Reusable Ada software components ada/swtools/ Tools useful in Ada software development ada/team_ada/ contributions by members of Team Ada, PowerPoint 3 presentations ada/testing/ Tools and components that support testing Ada systems ada/toolkit/ Tools for the PC and other platforms ada/userdocs/ documentation for Public Ada Library (PAL) users vhdl/ The VHDL Hardware Description Language (On Disc #2) ============================================================================== This CDROM is in ISO-9660 Format, with Rock Ridge extensions. If your system supports the Rock Ridge extensions, you can access the files using the original Unix-style filenames. If you system does not support Rock Ridge, you will see the filenames truncated to MSDOS style 8+3 filenames. Each directory contains a file named "00_trans.tbl" that translates the original filenames to the shortened names. For MSDOS, the "VIEW.EXE" utility will translate these names for you automatically. Just run "VIEW.EXE" in the top directory of the CDROM. ============================================================================== This CDROM comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee. If you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return it for a full refund. If you have any questions about this CDROM, or if you would like a list of other titles published by Walnut Creek CDROM, please write or call: Walnut Creek CDROM Suite 260 1547 Palos Verdes Mall Walnut Creek CA 94596 USA 1 800 786-9907 (Toll Free Sales) 1 800 731-7177 (Toll Free Tech Support) +1 510 674-0783 (Sales) +1 510 603-1234 (Tech Support) +1 510 674-0821 FAX Email: orders@cdrom.com (Orders) Email: info@cdrom.com (Information) Email: support@cdrom.com (Tech Support) WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/ FTP: ftp.cdrom.com ==============================================================================