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1.1     ! maekawa     1: UNIX dependent features and general utilities in PHCv2.
        !             2:
        !             3: New in this release is the inclusion of test programs (prefix "ts_").
        !             4:
        !             5: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !             6: file name                 : short description
        !             7: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !             8: natural_io                : instantiation of text_io with natural
        !             9: integer_io                : instantiation of text_io with integer
        !            10: unix_resource_usage       : auxiliary package for timing
        !            11: timing_package            : measures usage of computing resources
        !            12: sun_timing_package        : particular implementation for SunSparc Solaris
        !            13: other_timing_package      : implementation for IBM RS/6000, Dec/Ultrix
        !            14: system_call               : allows to execute UNIX system commands
        !            15: machines                  : specific system calls
        !            16: unix_command_line         : handling arguments on the command line
        !            17: bye_bye_message           : message at the end of the program
        !            18: communications_with_user  : dialogue to manipulate files, choose options
        !            19: file_scanning             : scanning a file for text banners
        !            20: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !            21: ts_timer                  : timing of summation of natural numbers
        !            22: ts_syscall                : execution of a system call : "ls"
        !            23: ts_mach                   : prints system information of current process
        !            24: ts_cmdline                : prints the arguments of the command line
        !            25: ts_byemess                : prints the message at the end of the program
        !            26: ts_commuser               : tests the dialogues with the user
        !            27: ts_filescan               : reads a file name and banner, and scans for it
        !            28: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !            29:
        !            30: The timing package comes in two implementations.  The current one is linked
        !            31: to the package that must be used on SunSparc Solaris machines.
        !            32: For IBM RS/6000 and Dec/Ultrix, use the other implementation.
        !            33:
        !            34: A package like Unix_Command_Line is available in some form in most Ada
        !            35: compiling systems.  For encapsulation purposes it is included here.
        !            36:
        !            37: The file scanning operations are part of the database management of the
        !            38: system input files to PHC.
        !            39:
        !            40: There are 28 files in this directory: besides the READ_ME file, 10 files
        !            41: are specifications (ads), the other 17 files are implementations (adb).
        !            42: wc *adb counts 1695 lines of Ada code