From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Executing Command Line Strings From Ada95/GNAT
Date: 1997/08/01
Date: 1997-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33E1E7DC.A6B@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 97073110303193@psavax.pwfl.com
Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 wrote:
>
> ... I would like a procedure which will take a string argument
> and execute it as a C-Shell or MS-DOS command. I have not seen
> anything immediately obvious in the documentation - perhaps it
> involves building a binding to some system routine(s). (I'm not
> terribly familiar with the system calls for either OS at the
> moment - I *write* operating systems, not *use* them ;-)
>
> If someone knows of some method to do this or has any suggestions,
> I'd appreciate hearing from you. Thanks.
Yes, you have to use a system call.
In the Win32.hlp file, lookup ShellExecute; it seems to do what you
want, but as a Windows application, not an MS-DOS app. I haven't used
it, so I may be wrong. I think to run a real MS-DOS command, you can
call ShellExecute and specify the command string "COMMAND.COM /C
<command string>"; check the DOS help on COMMAND.COM for details.
The semi-standard C library way of doing this is the "system" function;
there may be one in the cygwin32 system, and there should be one under
Solaris.
>
> MDC
>
--
- Stephe
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