Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developed to implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machine communication for Ada programs under Unix. Thissubsystem gives the user full access to files, pipes, sockets (both Unix and Internet) and pseudo-devices. Paradise has been ported to sun, DEC, sony MIPs, Verdex compiler, DEC compiler, Alsys/systeam compiler. {Version 2.0 of the library (ftp://cnam.cnam.fr/pub/Ada/Paradise)}. E-mail: se-info@cnam.cnam.fr>. (1992-09-30)