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: 103376,9d97d1b03d2c8483,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-14 13:02:48 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!newsfeed.esat.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail
From: "Rick Selby" <rjs130@york.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Directory Listing
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:02:52 -0000
Organization: The University of York, UK
Sender: rjs130@york.ac.uk
Message-ID: <b01ttm$1u5$1@pump1.york.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.137.39.44
X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1042578166 1989 195.137.39.44 (14 Jan 2003 21:02:46
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jan 2003 21:02:46 GMT
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33015
Date: 2003-01-14T21:02:46+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Hi,

I've been searching around for a solution to this for a while, and finally
remembered about newsgroups...

Basically I'd like a program that I can run in a directory, that will be
able to read in the names of the files in the directory, do stuff with them,
then create some directories and move the files around.

Obviously the 'doing stuff with them' bit I know I can do... but is anything
else remotely possible in Ada? I'd like to use Ada because, well, I know it,
and although I'm pretty sure it could be done in C I haven't the foggiest
where to start there.

And I think I remember a command to run dos programs, so the creating
directories and moving files seems reasonable, if only I knew what the file
names were...

Oh I'm running under Windows with Gnat.

Cheers,
--Rick