Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)

[serious@clerk.com (Noam Kloos)]

On Mon, 7 May 2001 10:47:51 -0400, "Marin David Condic"
<marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote:

>Now that Ada is much more general purpose in nature, it may be time to break
>out of the "embedded system" thinking. This might lead to language changes
>that make it more useful for development on PC's & workstations. However,
>the risk of doing so is that one might then invent a language that is no
>longer suited for embedded systems - and this would hurt the feelings of
>those of us who do that kind of work. That might be A Bad Thing.
>
After trying to add os_calls and found it was not portable between
Linux and Windows, I decided to try and forget about OS calls.
And ada program is an entity on its own and I was thinking how to
interact with other programs when not using os_calls or
ada.command_line.

All ada systems have the package Text_IO in common.
So the only way a program can comunicate to other programs is
about reading and writing each others files.

Just to see if the concept is usable I wrote
http://www.noam.nl/download/ada95/my_os.zip
and this makes me confident there is a way to have simultanious
programs running and interfacing without the need of being os
specific.

Noam.