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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 15:17:04 -0700
From: mkm%srs21g@scf28.scf.loral.com (Mike K. McNair)
Subject: Re: VMS Ada Question
Message-ID: <9304212217.AA19110@srs21g.scf.loral.com>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

>Can somebody please tell me how to make system calls via Ada?  I'm trying
>to perform one of the following:
>
>1). From within an Ada program, I would like to compile another.
>
>2). From within an ada program, I would like to perform a "directory /date"
>	call.
>
>Thanks!
>
>-David W. Madden 

Dave,

Take a look at the packages: Tasking_Services and Starlet. Both of these DEC
supplied packages provide bindings to the VMS system services. The Run-Time
Reference manual supplied with your DEC-Ada installation describes how to
setup and call the subprograms in these packages.

		-MKM-