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Finally, I went on with a specific MS Windows solution.
The usage is as simple as:
--
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Output_a_line(l: String) is
begin
  Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line('[' & l & ']');
end;
--
with Output_a_line, Windows_pipes;
procedure Win_Pipe_test is
  use Windows_pipes;
  p: Piped_process;
begin
  Start(p, "cmd.exe /c dir", ".", Output_a_line'Access);
  while Alive(p) loop
    Check_progress(p);
  end loop;
end Win_Pipe_test;

The code is there...
http://gnavi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnavi/gwenerator/src/Windows_pipes.ads?view=markup&pathrev=87
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