ada Florist is the (F)lorida (S)tate (U)niversity open-source implementaton of IEEE Standard 1003.5b-1996, the POSIX Ada binding, including real-time extensions. This software provides access to the UNIX operating system services for application programs written in the Ada programming language. It is designed to be self-configuring for a POSIX-compliant system. A suite of test programs is included.