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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Running external program, getting output
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:20:53 +0200
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Jarle Thorsen wrote:

> As far as I have gathered the best way of (non OS-specific) running an
> external program from Ada is using the Spawn procedure in g-os_lib,
> correct ?
> 
> But how do I get the output from the command that I run? Lets say that I
> want to run "ls" for example.....

AdaCL has a support class do just this. See TestCommand (test 3) on how to
do it:

http://adacl.sourceforge.net/html/TestCommand-Main__adb.htm

You find AdaCL at:

http://www.ada.krischik.com

Also, you can use the GNAT.Expect package.

With Regads

Martin

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