Re: Terminal Control (or System calls), unix

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <F9LA0u.4w@jvdsys.stuyts.nl>,
  jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote:
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> : In article <3703F011.1DBB143C@cs.und.edu>,
> :   "Sven E. Anderson" <anderson@cs.und.edu> wrote:
>
> (note I careful I am about the attributions :-)

Appreciated. :-)

>
> : If its a system call, you should be able to make it from Ada. However I
think
> : stty is typically a shell builtin, isn't it?
>
> That does not matter, on Linux, you could use something like:
>
> 	      procedure Execute (S : in String) is
> 	         procedure System (S : in System.Address);
> 	         pragma Import (C, System, "system");
> 	         C_String : constant String := S & ASCII.NUL;
> 	      begin
> 	         System (C_String'Address);
> 	      end Execute;

I suppose. But don't you have to worry that the person executing your program
might have a default shell on which stty behaves differently (or does not
exist)?

T.E.D.

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