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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d27f35b521d35d26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-19 10:05:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to execute DOS command from an Ada program ? References: <1056026816.27326@news.drenet.dnd.ca> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1056042350 12.234.13.56 (Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:05:50 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:05:50 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:05:50 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39452 Date: 2003-06-19T17:05:50+00:00 List-Id: >I am using Ada95 to develop a tool which will execute/call a DOS batch file. That obviously depends on the OS you are on (Mac, Unix?) Therefore it isn't part of the standard for all Ada compilers. But it's very commonly needed. So your compiler vendor surely has supplied some library functions to do it. Remember that Ada is not limited to MS Windows systems.