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From: John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Q] Operating System Command Interface
Date: 1998/05/05
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"Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com> wrote:
>John McCabe wrote:
>> 
>> Am I right in thinking that, as standard, Ada has no direct perating
>> system command interface akin to the C "System" call?
>> 
>
>My understanding is that the "system" call you are making
>in C is actually a call to the Unix operating system; it's
>not part of the C language.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you'll find the system() function 
is included in the ANSI Standard C library definitions and is not 
dependent on Unix.

>The same kind of call can be made from Ada using pragma Interface (Ada >83) or pragma Import (Ada 95).

True, and thank you.

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John McCabe
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