Ada users should not be without this library! This CDROM is a copy of the InternetŐs Public Ada Library (PAL). With over 1.3 GB of documentation, information, source code, and ready-to-run tools and compilers, this two-disc set is a valuable resource for any serious Ada programmer. 6,000 files added or updated since the February 1996 edition. Included youŐll find: Ą Major Update! GNAT 3.04 & 3.05, the GNU NYU Ada95 Translator sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and the DoDŐs Ada Joint Program Office. The first VALIDATED free Ada95 compiler! Fully integrated with the GNU C compiler, allowing mix of Ada95 and C code. Src included! Ready-to-run ports of GNAT for DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, Solaris, SunOS, Linux, Silicon Graphics & more. Ą New! Courseware from the Advanced Software Technology Open House at Monmouth University on Ada95, Java, and their interaction and issues. Included is a DoD-level briefing by Ms. Cynthia Rand, Principal Manager of Information Systems, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. Ą New! Briefing by the Honorable Emmett Paige, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence to Secretary Atwood on the DoDŐs Corporate Information Management initiative. Ą Update! EZ2LOAD, Plug-and-Play for DOS and Windows 95/Windows NT that includes a complete Ada83 and Ada95 software development environment and installs directly from the CDROM. Ą Update to the Lovelace Ada95 Tutorial (now at V. 5.3). This tutorial is written in HTML for use by a World Wide Web browser. Lovelace is unpacked, ready to run directly off the CDROM. Lovelace also includes a distribution using the Cello brower for MSDOS (including the Cello browser itself), ready to copy, unpack, and run under MSDOS. Ą Update! A large set of Ada bindings, including bindings to OSI, ADAR, ASIS, CICS, DCE, GKS, GPEF, GPPF, IRDS, PCTE, PHIG, POSIX, X11, Motif, and Microsoft Windows. Ą Over 300M bytes of information on Ada83 and Ada95, including: Ą Guide to compiling Ada83 programs using Ada95 compilers Ą An Ada95 transition guide Ą An adoption handbook Ą Reference manuals and tutorials Ą Rational for the design of Ada Ą 80 courses in Ada, Software Engineering, Software Reuse, OOD, OOP, Domain Engineering, real-time, concurrent programming, and other current topics. Hundreds of technical reports and references, including over 200M bytes of material from the Software Engineering Institute. Ą A catalog of the Public Ada Library (over 2,000 pages covering this CDROM). The catalog is in text, Postscript, HTML, and an Interactive reader that runs under DOS. You can print the catalog out, view it using a World Wide Web browser, or run it on your PC! Ą An Ada CDROM World Wide Web home page, complete with access to the catalog of the Public Ada Library and the PAL Frequently Asked Questions List. Ą This CDROM can be browsed using Netscape and other Web browsers! Start with the file 00_cd.html or 00_cd_a.htm. We used the Certifier_1 tool (also available in binary on this CDROM) to certify the software on this CDROM. This disk is in ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge extensions. You can read it on 30 platforms, including: DOS, Mac, Sun, and HP.