From: leake@cme-durer.ARPA (Stephe Leake)
Subject: Re: host OS signature available thru text_io?
Date: 16 May 88 17:49:54 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444@marvin.cme-durer.ARPA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA's message of 13 May 88 14:41:47 GMT
In article <8805131445.AA23183@oldajpo.sei.cmu.edu> sam harbaugh writes:
> We aspire to build a piece of Ada software
> that will be portable across VMS, Unix and DOS.
> Is there a way to determine the host OS through text_io?
> SYSTEM.SYSTEM_NAME seems to be peculiar to the
> compiler and we want to be able to use any
> validated compiler so I conclude the package system
> isn't of any help.
> Any other ideas on getting a host os signature?
regards, sam harbaugh
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Perhaps you could try opening a file, using OS-specific file syntax,
and then whichever doesn't raise NAME_ERROR or USE_ERROR is the
correct one. (I haven't tried this yet).
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