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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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"John Cupak" <Jcupak744@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<ZtcM8.49323$KD3.980836@typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net>...
> I teach Ada 95 using N. Cohen's "Ada as a Second Language, 2ed".
> 
> In the past, the students used UNIX workstations, and I assigned them
> the GETENV problem from them book. You know, call the UNIX
> getenv function with an environment variable, and get the mapped
> results back. We used all the C interface libraries, and it work just
> like in the book!
> 
> But, now we've replaced all the UNIX workstations with PCs, and I
> need a similar problem to give the students.
> 
> Does anyone have a nice, simple, Ada 95 "call" to an existing PC
> library function (even a DLL?) that I can substitute for the GETENV
> problem?

Actually if you are using GNAT, it would be more appropriate to use the
routine in the GNAT library for accessing environment variables.