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From: "Michel Simeon" <michel.simeon1@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is there some way of calling a system command?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:57:19 +0200
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Thank you for your answer, it worked for what I wanted to do.

I had not realized that in addition to Ada per se I should also look into 
what GNAT is offering.

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Michel Simeon

"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote in message 
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> Michel Simeon writes :
>> I am learning Ada and does not know C.
>> I tried your approach to call an othe program from Ada and it worked, 
>> except
>> for one problem: the calling program will wait for the return parameter 
>> (Rc
>> in your exemple) and thus freeze till the other one is closed.
>> Could i do something similar but withour the retrun parameter ?
>
> See GNAT.OS_Lib.Non_Blocking_Spawn, GNAT.Expect.Non_Blocking_Spawn.
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.
>