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Debs Wisbey:

> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can call DOS commands from
> an Ada program that is running on a 386 machine that ONLY runs DOS.

Hello again! I suspect that in dos_paqs.zip (link below) you'll find
what you are looking for. Especially the "Exec_command" procedure...

> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can rename a file, given
> the old filename and new filename as strings.

Exec_command("ren old.ext new.ext");

> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can write to/read from
> address locations.

Where ? In the "DOS zone" or in the graphics one or ?...
Anyway you can mimick the code in VGAGraph and SVGA.
I'd take a look at
http://users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk/other_os.html#VGAPCK

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