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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