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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: [Q] Operating System Command Interface
Date: 1998/05/05
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John McCabe wrote:
> 
> Am I right in thinking that, as standard, Ada has no direct perating
> system command interface akin to the C "System" call?
> 

My understanding is that the "system" call you are making
in C is actually a call to the Unix operating system; it's
not part of the C language.  The same kind of call can be made
from Ada using pragma Interface (Ada 83) or pragma Import
(Ada 95).

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Stanley Allen
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