Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)

[noam@dds.nl (Noam Kloos)]

I was just busy with the same problem. For the C system command I use
<unistd.h>

there is a way with 'pragma Import(C,localname,externalname) but
haven't got it to work yet.

On Fri, 4 May 2001 09:51:45 +0200, Lars Lundgren
<d95lars@dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>How do I execute other programs from within ada?
>
>I.e how do I convert - for example - the following C program to ada?
>
>#include <stdlib.h> 
>
>main(){ 
>  printf("Files in Directory are:\n");
>  system("ls -l");
>}
>
>Thanx,
>/Lars L
>
>