Announcing Paradise-3.3

Announcing Paradise-3.3

[Nicolas Courtel]

The main differences with previous version are the following:
- some new functions, mainly for directory and time management
  (stat/lstat/fstat(2), opendir/readdir(3), ctime/asctime(3), strftime(3)...)
- support for out-of-band data
- quite a few bug corrections

The source code is available via ftp on ftp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr, in pub/export
,
in both compressed (.Z extension) and gzipped (.z extension) formats.
It can also be obtained by mail to mserver@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr, with the
following message: send-me paradise-3.3.tar.Z

*** What is Paradise? ***

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 three environments:
- SunOS (Sparc) and SunAda (Verdix 6.1) compiler
- HP-UX (HP9000/700) and HP-Ada (Alsys) compiler
- HP-UX (HP9000/700) and Verdix 6.3d compiler

It is known not to work well on SunOS/Alsys, because of problems on signal
handlers.

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.

Send all comments, bug reports, patches to "paradise@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr"

Nicolas Courtel - April 1993

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Nicolas Courtel - courtel@dgac.fr

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