wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) (03/12/90)
Several weeks ago I posted a summary of an article by Y.E. Gail Wang entitled "UNIVERSAL_FILE_NAMES For Ada", which appeared in ACM SIGADA Ada Letters, Jan/Feb 1990, Vol. X, No. 1, pages 111-117. Briefly, UFN is a set of Ada components designed to provide filename portability between the MS-DOS, Unix, and VMS operating systems such that it is unnecessary to change filenames or filename paths when porting among these operating systems. UFN is itself immediately portable as well, and is structured so as to allow further enhancement such that other operating systems are also included. Along with many other STARS products, UFN 2.2 can be obtained directly from the STARS Foundations Repository. To access this Repository, call Ms. Lavonia Maddox at (202) 404-7335. I also have a copy of UFN 2.2 which Dr. Wang was kind enough to send to me personally. If anyone is specifically interested in obtaining UFN 2.2 and not in considering also the other valuable products to be found in the STARS Foundations Repository, I am willing to e-mail a copy of UFN 2.2 to anyone who sends me an e-mailed request for it. I consider UNIVERSAL_FILE_NAMES to be an important advance toward the Ada goal of achieving the maximum possible portability. I hope that UFN will be widely used, and that it will soon be extended to cover many other operating system platforms. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu