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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Alsys Ada 83 MS-DOS Command Line question (was: Ada Question)
Date: 1996/12/13
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In article <58rdj6$mtm@netserver.univ-lille1.fr>, mirolo@fil.univ-lille1.fr (MIROLO Sebastien) writes:
>>> structured and designed. One question I have is that can Ada retrieve command 
>>> line arguements...if so, is it a standard in the language?
> 
>> it is standard to the language.  it is called Ada.Command_Line .  it can be
>> found on the web at http://www.adahome.com/rm95/rm9x-A-15.html .  if you have
>> gnat installed on your un*x system, you can find it in the adainclude/
>> subdirectory of your installation.
>>
>> --kirk beitz
> 
> This is fine if you got an Ada 95 compiler, but here we are always using an old
> Ada 83 compiler (Alsys for MS-DOS). Could anyone remember how to retrieve command
> line arguments in Ada 83 ?

So it was understood that the standard answer was only for Ada 95.
Thus it was understood that any Ada 83 answer is not going to be
standard across all implementations.  This is my plea for better
topics such that the problem domain is more precisely outlined.

Larry Kilgallen