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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)
Subject: Re: running an exe from gnat
Date: 1997/03/18
Message-ID: <1997Mar18.153902.5790@news>#1/1
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Date: 1997-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Mindy Matusewicz <Mindy_matusewicz@ny.essd.northgrum.com> writes:
> I am running gnat for windows nt on my pentium and I need to call an exe
> program.  How do you do that in Ada?

Use Spawn proc. in GNAT.OS_lib if I remember well.
This is implemented in the Exec procedure of my DOS package
(it uses only the GNAT library, so it should run under windoze).
You find it in pc_paqs.zip

    http://www.unine.ch/math/Personnel/Assistants/Gautier/Gaut_FTP.htm