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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: [Q] Operating System Command Interface
Date: 1998/05/05
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Markus Kuhn wrote in message <354F1D90.39080B2D@cl.cam.ac.uk>...
>Look into the IEEE POSIX.5 standard, the Ada version of the Unix API.
>There you'll find procedures such as
>
>   procedure Start_Process
>     (Child : out POSIX.Process_Identification.Process_ID;
>      Pathname : in POSIX.Pathname;
>      Template : in Process_Template;
>      Arg_List : in POSIX.POSIX_String_List
>               := POSIX.Empty_String_List);
The reason I did not offer this solution is that Florist has not been ported
to all platforms, so is not as ubiquitous as the call to the "system"
library function.

David C. Hoos, Sr.