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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Running programs using ADA
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:00:07 -0600
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On 11/30/2012 1:56 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> than C so I hope that ADA may help me here. More specifically: does
> ADA have support for a function similar to C's system()?
>
> Example:
>
> int main(void)
> {
>     int retval;
>     retval=system("copy h:\*.* g:\");
>     printf("return value %d\n",retval);
>     return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> }


yes. see

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_a_system_command#Ada

few examples are given

--Nasser