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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: "system" Call in GNAT?
Date: 1999/04/07
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In article <3708E4C0.F13C2023@alphasoft-inc.com>,
  smithm-nospam@stelnj.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was looking for a call in GNAT that would make
> invoke a command to the OS
> for me and  I found the function "system" and "execl".

When using GNAT, do not forget that a critical part of
the documentation is the specs of the g.xxx units, found
in the g-xxx.ads files in gnatlib. These provide a lot of
useful functionality. In this particular case, look up
the section called Subprocesses in g-os_lib.ads, it may
well do what you want, without having to mess with low
level interface to C functions.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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