John.Goodenough@SEI.CMU.EDU (01/23/88)
Commentaries on the Ada Standards can (once again) be accessed by anonymous
FTP. The commentaries are stored at the AJPO machine. Here's an example of
how to retrieve a commentary. I've starred the lines where you type something.
* ftp ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
* Name (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:): anonymous
* Password (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu:anonymous): (your name here)
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
* ftp> cd public/ada-comment
200 CWD command okay.
* ftp> mget ai-00032*
* mget ai-00032-ra.wj.1? y
200 PORT command okay.
150 Opening data connection for ai-00045-co.wj.1 (128.2.237.97,6034) (1574 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
1616 bytes received in 0.06 seconds (26 Kbytes/s)
* ftp> quit
quit
221 Goodbye.
To see an index of all the commentaries, retrieve the file
ai-index*
This file is quite long -- some 198K bytes. Transmission between MILNET
machines and the AJPO machine can be quite slow, since the AJPO machine is
on the ARPANET and transmissions are gatewayed to MILNET machines. I
understand work is underway to change this situation.
When the commentaries were kept at ADA-20, people interested in the
commentaries were automatically notified when any commentary was updated.
Since the transition to the new machine, updating of commentaries has been
disrupted, but should resume some time next month. At that time, automatic
notification of commentary updates will resume. In the meantime, anyone who
wishes to receive automatic notification of updates to commentaries when this
service resumes should send a message to
ada-comment@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
requesting to be put on the automatic notification list.