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From: Serge.Rybin@di.epfl.ch (Serge Rybin)
Subject: Re: GNAT.OS_Lib a portable OS interface?
Date: 1996/03/27
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In article <4ja1pj$vp4@salyko.cube.net>, okellogg@cube.net (Oliver Kellogg) writes:
:> Tired of reinventing Yet Another "portable" OS interface, this:
:> 
:> Is the package GNAT.OS_Lib intended to be just that?
:> In particular, will this package be implemented for VMS (once the
:> GNAT port to VMS is there)? If not, are there other recommended ways
:> of interfacing to commonly found operating system services.
:> 
:> Oliver
:> 

I am using GNAT.OS_Lib namely as "portable" OS interface in the ASIS
implementation for GNAT. It works in MS DOS and in UNIX.

Sergey Rybin,

ASIS-for-GNAT Project.