Re: I have a question...

[spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andre Spiegel)]

Keith Thompson writes:
> Note that the vast majority of Unix programs do *not* support '~'
> expansion (or environment variable expansion, or wildcard expansion).
> This job is normally left to the shell.  I strongly recommend that you
> do the same.

I strongly agree on that. In my opinion, Ada programs intended to run
on UNIX machines should behave as UNIX-like as possible, which means,
for example, to use the command line, and the standard input and output
streams as the main, if not the only means of communication.

I should say that if a UNIX program needs to ask the user for a file
name, something must be wrong with its design.

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