Re: How to have Ada program send an email

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:

> On Dec 17, 11:23 pm, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
>> How can I get my Ada (GNAT) program to send me an email? It's a long-
>> running simulation and I'd like to know when it finishes.
>>
>> I'm on OS X so I suppose I could write an Applescript to cause
>> Mail.app to do the job, then execute the Applescript as a command line
>> within the Ada program, but is there an easier or more direct way?
>>
>> Jerry
>
> AWS - took a minute to realize that the Linux versions of GNAT GPL
> 2010 were suitable for Mac OS X too! D'oh!! :-)
>
> -- Martin
> Same for XML/Ada etc...

Do you mean the sources, Martin, in which case I can only agree: the
sources are the same for all platforms, it's just that they only show
the ones for which there are binaries; so Linux shows most ...

But if you mean the binaries, how do you get them to work? (aside from
in a VM, of course).