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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: How to execute DOS command from an Ada program ?
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Nose Red wrote:

>I am using Ada95 to develop a tool which will execute/call a DOS batch =
file.
>Anyone knows how ?

If you use GNAT you may take a look at GNAT.OS_Lib and the Spawn
procedure/function there. For executing a batch file you may also need
Getenv to retrieve the name of the command processor (environment
variable COMSPEC) to let it execute the batch.


Vinzent.