Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com> wrote in message 
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> Does anyone have electronic copies? They're not in the zips available.

Unfortunately, they don't exist. The original source was for a 
photo-typesetter that hasn't existed for decades (and mostly likely is only 
stored on 8" floppies that probably aren't readable even if the right 
hardware was available).

The only way for them to exist is for someone to scan a printed version.

I have a single printed version in our archives (with installation 
instructions for 8" floppies dated March 5, 1984). Its got someone's 
hardwritten notes in it (it's not pristine). Anyway, since it is the only 
known version, I won't let it out of the office, since it is literally 
irreplaceable.

I've offered to others to scan it to PDFs (one per page, that's all I can 
figure out how to do on our cheap multifunction machine here) if someone 
would want to convert that to something more usable. But since I'd have to 
scan each page individually and the document is an inch thick give or take a 
few millimeters, I'd need some compensation for the time. (I have lots of 
things I could be doing that are either fun, make money, or advance Ada --  
this is none of these!) Contact me privately if you want to discuss this 
further.

BTW, since RRS still exists and never made a public version for any version 
of Janus/Ada (including the CP/M versions) -- because all of the versions 
are derived from the same original source and it is likely that some of the 
compiler still survives from those versions) -- using it without a license 
is technically infringing. I don't think there is much chance that anyone 
would try to stop non-commercial use, but I would suggest getting legal if 
anything commercial is involved. (And yes, we periodically get requests for 
help with it from users that I would have expected to have moved on long 
ago.)

                                              Randy Brukardt, founder, R.R. 
Software, Inc.