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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Using Text_Io.Open
Date: 1997/11/10
Message-ID: <34674800.5057@online.no>#1/1
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Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
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AA HOLMES wrote:
> 
> Hello. I'm a student studying Ada in a Unix enviroment.
> When you open files using Text_Io.Open command you can specify a path name
> for the file. Unfortunatly I want to use the '~' to specify the directory
> /home/(user)
> user been the users login name. So far I have to recompile the source
> everytime Someone asks for a copy of my program.
> So for example if someone with login name psdrayto asked for a copy, I
> would have to change the file name to /home/psdrayto/config and then
> recompile. Is there a way to use system Variables or shortcuts in Ada ?
> 

I belive that with GNAT command line stuff has an extension that allows
you to have a look at environment variables. I belive that ACT has some
online documentation at http://www.gnat.com.

If I'm wrong about the documentation the compiler and some documentation
is available from ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat.


Greetings,

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