Hello, Everyone, The Mar 97 Edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM is out now. This is a Special Edition for the ACM Computing Week and the DoD Software Technology Conference, and it is being used as part of SIGAda's promotion campaign (SIGAda is making it available at a reduced price) at a number of conferences (including Object World in Boston and the Software Engineering Process Group conference in San Jose). Also, for those attending the DoD Software Technology Conference this year, the AJPO is providing copies of this CDROM for the attendees. If you are not attending one of these conferences (or the other conferences targetted by SIGAda - see the SIGAda Web pages for details), you can get the CDROM directly from Walnut Creek (800/786-9907). This CDROM is a copy of most of the PAL as of the end of Jan 97. Included is the Ada Advocacy Package, GNAT 3.07 and 3.09, an update to EZ2LOAD, an update to ASIS, several new courses, and a variety of other material. Overall, several thousand files have been added or updated since the Dec 96 Ada CDROM (which was given out at the Tri-Ada 96 conference). For those of you who are interested, my next message is an introduction to this CDROM in the form of a tour. You can print out the tour and then step through it with the CDROM ... it's an easy way to quickly learn how to the use the CDROM's user interfaces and locate information and software of interest. Rick -- Richard Conn, PAL Manager | [log in to unmask] Opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of anyone else. =============================================================================