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From: leake@cme-durer.ARPA (Stephe Leake)
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Subject: Re: host OS signature available thru text_io?
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Date: 16 May 88 17:49:54 GMT
Organization: National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
In-reply-to: CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA's message of 13 May 88 14:41:47 GMT
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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
   ---------------------

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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