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From: prichtmyer@yahoo.com (Peter Richtmyer)
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Subject: Re: Call to execvp in Rational Ada
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"Steven Deller" <a101.deller@smsail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1038464042.24147.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
>
> You seem to have a mistaken expectation of the call to the UNIX execvp
> operation.  
>
You got that right! Thanks.

I found a suitable (though "rational-only") substitute. See below.

Thanks again,
Peter
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with system;
with Unix_Operations;   -- in rational.rss
with Unix_Types;        -- also

procedure artest is

     nul      : constant Character := Character'Val (0);
     status   : Unix_Types.int := 0;
     command  : String := "ls -la" & nul;
                
begin  
    
    status := Unix_Operations.system (
        Command => Unix_Types.To_Char_Ptr(command'address));
       
end artest;
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