Function/Call in Ada to detect operating system?

Function/Call in Ada to detect operating system?

[AAFellow]

Hey guys,

Is there a way to detect what operating system the code is running on?
I'm writing my code to work on both windows and linux, and there are
some parts where I would like to do something like this:

If(Windows)
     *Do something this way;
else if (Linux)
     *Do something a slightly different way;


thanks guys!!

Re: Function/Call in Ada to detect operating system?

[Marc A. Criley]

AAFellow@hotmail.com wrote:

> Is there a way to detect what operating system the code is running on?
> I'm writing my code to work on both windows and linux, and there are
> some parts where I would like to do something like this:
> 
> If(Windows)
>      *Do something this way;
> else if (Linux)
>      *Do something a slightly different way;

There was a huge thread on this subject in this group a few months ago, 
here's a link to the root posting (caution, may line wrap):

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/f890526de6a8a218/593e4f90fb944fa4?q=windows+linux+system&rnum=3#593e4f90fb944fa4

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Re: Function/Call in Ada to detect operating system?

[AAFellow]

Thanks, I used the idea of writing a function to determine the OS based
on path delimiters, and it worked perfectly.