Re: socket, pipe

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"ghostie" <eieio@coastalnet.com> wrote in message
news:56a4b188.0311050545.77dc9cdf@posting.google.com...
> Thanks for all the help.
> What I've decided to try is to have one application write a file to
> disk, and the other application will read the file from the disk.  I
> want the file to be written and closed by the first app before the
> other app tries to read it.  A method I've seen done before for this
> uses two separate directories; after a file is ready to read, its
> filename gets placed in a separate directory as a zero-length file.
> So, if you find a file name in this 2nd directory, you know that same
> filename is ready for you to read in the 1st directory.
>
> So the next thing I'm stuck on is how to do a directory listing from
> Ada.  I guess either calling a system call or if there's actually an
> Ada call for this, but I need to be able to use the results in order
> to know what files are in a directory.

The "Ada.Directories" package is being added for the next revision
(nearly...).
You can pick up a version of this at my web site (using an "Ada0Y" root). It
was developed on WinXP and has also been tested on WinNT. It should do
all you need.

www.martin.dowie.btinternet.co.uk

-- Martin