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Date: 2 Jun 93 18:23:28 GMT
From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa  (David Emery)
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Jun2132328@goldfinger.mitre.org>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Much of the stuff you're asking for, particularly dealing with
directories, are not language issues, but operating system issues.
That's why there are C and Ada (and FORTRAN) bindings to POSIX.  

The POSIX/Ada binding covers both command line arguments and access to
directories, as well as a lot of other "unix-like" stuff.  

Look for some string handling packages from the Ada Technology
Insertion Program later this year (coming attractions...).

				dave