RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Rick Conn) (05/20/88)
For those of you who have asked about it, DOD-STD-1838 has definitely been released and is now being shipped by the Naval Publications and Forms Center, 5801 Tabor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19120. DOD_STD-1838, dated 9 October 1986, is entitled "Military Standard Common Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE) Interface Set (CAIS). From the Scope section of this 600-page book, "This document provides specifications for a set of Ada packages, with their intended semantics, which together form a set of common interfaces for Ada Programming Support Environments (APSEs). This set of interfaces is known as the Common APSE Interface Set (CAIS) and is designed to promote the source-level portability of Ada programs, particularly Ada software development tools. "The goal of the CAIS is to promote interoperability and transportability of Ada software across Department of Defense (DoD) APSEs." Rick -------