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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: HELP: Send command to the Windows prompt from Ada procedure
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>does anyone show me the simplest way to perform a windows system call using
>Ada ?
  That's not part of Ada - it varies a great deal among OSes so it's
normally supplied by the compiler vendor for the particular compiler
and OS.  Look in your docs.  If you're using Gnat, my Gnat docs have
it under Gnat.OS_Lib in the reference manual (not the user guide).