From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce7e6cb0bec07cff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-07 06:50:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!opentransit.net!jussieu.fr!cnam.fr!not-for-mail From: evangeli Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: retrieve command result Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:46:28 +0100 Organization: Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers Message-ID: <3DCA8AD4.2060408@cnam.fr> References: <3DC946C2.3000505@cnam.fr> <3DC9D64B.9266D680@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lmi14.cnam.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: kelvin.cnam.fr 1036680126 9821 163.173.228.14 (7 Nov 2002 14:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.cnam.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 14:42:06 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30527 Date: 2002-11-07T14:42:06+00:00 List-Id: > evangeli wrote: > >>hi all >> >>is it possible to retrieve the result of a command in a variable. >>i explain myself: >> > > You are looking for "Pipes", which is an excellent piece of software > written by Jim Rogers. It makes doing things like this very easy. > > http://www.adapower.com/reuse/pipes.html > > Marc A. Criley > Quadrus Corporation > www.quadruscorp.com > thank u for your response. it works fine, but this advantage with the spawns functions of the GNAT.OS_Lib was that i was able to stop a process or wait for its completion, which is not possible now. any idea? Sami Evangelista