For both Al and Pascal ...

Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> Yes and the best solution could be POSIX. It is compiler and platforms
> independant.
> 
> Look at Florist for a UNIX implementation and under my homepage for
> a partial (yet very usefull) POSIX for Win32.
> 
> Pascal.
> 

Pascal is quite right.  I've used his Win32POSIX packages successfully
on Windows systems (i.e., 95/98/NT).  I've also used them with ObjectAda
7.1.2a at work and with GNAT 3.11p at home, and have never experienced a
problem.  The POSIX package bodies show how the Win32 API can be used to
implement the POSIX functionality and thus are quite instructive for
those learning the Win32 API.  A great example is demo6 in the
aforementioned Win32POSIX binding.  Is uses the package
POSIX.POSIX_Process_Environment and demonstrates its many services for
dealing with environment variables and strings.

So Al, although the Win32 API is popular, I would suggest that you tuck
my previous example code into a nice bit bucket somewhere and follow the
example shown in the demo6 program.  Pascal rightly points out that
POSIX is a much more portable means of dealing with environment
variables, and other operating system services as well.

Regards,
Jeffrey D. Cherry
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