Re: platform specific question

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 09/12/2012 13:50, in article
03f19861-e90d-4664-8f1b-02580aea84c0@e25g2000vbm.googlegroups.com, "Hans
Vlems" <hvlems@freenet.de> wrote:

> On 7 dec, 19:29, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org>
> wrote:
>> On 12/07/2012 11:14 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>> 
>>> C programs have easy access to commandline arguments and "environment
>>> variables".
>>> Is there a way to interpret the environment variables on a Windows
>>> (2008 Server R2) platform?
>>> What I'm looking for is the usercode that executes the program. Some
>>> programs offer different functionality which is now derived from a
>>> table that is organised by username/usercode.
>> 
>> For command-line arguments, there's package Ada.Command_Line (ARM
>> A.15,http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-A-1...
>> for environment variables, package Ada.Environment_Variables (ARM
>> A.17,http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/html/RM-A-1...
>> ).
>> 
>> Ada.Command_Line has existed since 1995; Ada.Environment_Variables came along
>> in
>> 2007.
>> 
>> --
>> Jeff Carter
>> "I like it when the support group complains that they have
>> insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software."
>> Robert I. Eachus
>> 91
> 
> Jeff, thanks for the pointers.
> I stopped using ADA in 1984 or so and have only recently returned to
> the language.
> If only to discover that ADA has changed a lot in the mean time.


Indeed, but just as back in 1984, it is still named Ada, not ADA.

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