Re: GNAT problem: Hello World

[beidler@guinness.cs.uofs.edu (Jack Beidler)]

In article <3c8je2$n99@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, daver@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Dave Retherford) writes:
|> In article <2EE640BF@SMTPGATE2.STRATCOM.AF.MIL>,
|> Bennett, Chip (KTR) ~U <BennettC@J64.STRATCOM.AF.MIL> wrote:
|> > Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@MEYER.FYS.KU.DK> writes:
|> > 
|> > > I've got a problem with GNAT-1.83-DOS (just downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com
|> > > yesterday):
|> > >
|> > > The Hello.adb example freezes the computer when I try
|> > > to run it. It seems to compile and link fine.
|> > >
|> > > Could somebody please help me (or point me to some help).
|> > 
|> > and W ALI <W.Ali1@BRADFORD.AC.UK> writes:
|> > 
|> > > I'm having exactly the same problem too !
|> > >
|> > > I've even tried typing a short program myself, but this tells me that the
|> > > program is too big for memory.  This is impossible as it is only a few
|> > > lines long.  Anybody ?
|> > 
|> > Are you remembering that "gnatbl" in 1.83 does not create a .EXE file, but
|> > rather a COFF executable.  If you create your executable with:
|> > 
|> >      gnatbl test1 -o test1
|> > 
|> > Then you can execute it with:
|> > 
|> >      go32 test1
|> > 
|> > or convert it to a DOS executable with:
|> > 
|> >      coff2exe test1
|> > 
|> > I've heard that "gnatbl" in GNAT 2.00 generates DOS executables directly.
|> >
|>  

I have used version 1.83 in DOS since it has become available and
I now have at least a dozen students attacking v. 1.83 in a DOS
environment with great success.  I have a copy of the CDROM but
I have not used that copy.  

|> > I've heard that "gnatbl" in GNAT 2.00 generates DOS executables directly.
|> >
|> 

TRUE:  I've been using 2.00 in DOS for about a week and, yes, it
creates DOS executable files (I found out the hard way, I have this
terrible habit of not reading readme files).  
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