Re: platform specific question

[Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de>]

On 7 dec, 19:29, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org>
wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 11:14 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>
> > C programs have easy access to commandline arguments and "environment
> > variables".
> > Is there a way to interpret the environment variables on a Windows
> > (2008 Server R2) platform?
> > What I'm looking for is the usercode that executes the program. Some
> > programs offer different functionality which is now derived from a
> > table that is organised by username/usercode.
>
> For command-line arguments, there's package Ada.Command_Line (ARM A.15,http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-A-1...
> for environment variables, package Ada.Environment_Variables (ARM A.17,http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-A-1...).
>
> Ada.Command_Line has existed since 1995; Ada.Environment_Variables came along in
> 2007.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "I like it when the support group complains that they have
> insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software."
> Robert I. Eachus
> 91

Jeff, thanks for the pointers.
I stopped using ADA in 1984 or so and have only recently returned to
the language.
If only to discover that ADA has changed a lot in the mean time.
Hans