From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92640d662fc31a03 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 07:17:46 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9d6cip$1rf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3af9470c.18806277@news.nl.uu.net> Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:17:15 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:17:15 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7373 Date: 2001-05-09T14:17:15+00:00 List-Id: In article <3af9470c.18806277@news.nl.uu.net>, Noam Kloos says... >All ada systems have the package Text_IO in common. >So the only way a program can comunicate to other programs is >about reading and writing each others files. That's a bit strong. For one thing, its quite possible to *portably* interface to external C code using "pragma Interface (C,...)" and the types in Interfaces.C. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com