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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: vxWorks Directory Browsing
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:44:25 +0000 (UTC)
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matthew.gaehring@lmco.com wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, I wish that I could do just that, but
> unfortunately I am limited to only using what is available within
> Ada95, AdaMULTI, and vxWorks.  My employer is extremely restrictive in
> that I can only use the specific tools that are contracted to this
> program.
> 
> I'm willing to resort to vxWorks calls if there is no way within Ada to
> do the directory browsing, if that's what I'm left with does anyone
> have any suggestions how to do that in Ada?
> 

In that case lookup the thin binding for "dirLib.h" that should be 
provided with AdaMULTI. This is a POSIX library and one that florist 
access - so you will be largely re-writing that bit of florist!

Standard package "Ada.Directories" is not Ada95 but Ada2005. There are 
Win32 and Linux versions around but I don't of a VxWorks port.

Cheers

-- Martin