Re: Need help re: System Calls

[cm@mihalis.demon.co.uk (Chris Morgan)]

In article <dewar.860415799@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes:

> 
> Bill asks
> 
> <<I am looking for information about how to perform system calls (in this
> case, UNIX commands) in the GNAT compiler of Ada 95. Any help would be
> appreciated. (Note: in this case, I am trying to implement a command which
> is stored in a string).>>
> 
> Remember that the specs of the g-* units in the GNAT library are an important
> part of the documentation. These is a collection of useful stuff distributed
> with GNAT, and the specs (ads files) act as the documentation. To answer
> this question look at GNAT.OS_Lib.Spawn in g-os_lib.ads.
> 

And failing that just pragma interface to the C routine "system". I've
got an example at work if you want (drop me a line in that case) which
tests whether a file is a named pipe using the shell. Ok it's gross
but it helped :-)
-- 
Chris Morgan (cm@mihalis.demon.co.uk)