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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: GNAT & Linux & OS calls & Tk perhaps ?
Date: 1998/09/20
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In article <3604863B.590E10F1@intergate.bc.ca>,
  Gerald Gutierrez <gutier@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Thanks to those who enlightened me about Ada. I was told that the Ada
> compiler I have likely already does have some sort of bindings to the
> operating system it is being used on.
>
> Perhaps I'm just not used to Ada, but I'm having trouble figuring out
> what the bindings are and how I can use them. I'm using GNAT 3.10p ( I
> think, I'm not at my machine now ) on RedHat 5.1 Linux. I'd like to be
> able to access the system & library calls. It would be really great if I
> can have some sort of access to Tk for UI purposes as well ( and so
> implicitly Tcl ). Is this possible ?
>
> Someone please point me in a direction where I can find this
> information.


Just read up on pragma Import, and look at the appropriate
section of Annex B of the reference manual (one of the
sections of the RM that is quite accessible).

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