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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: run external .exe files within an ada program..
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:59:11 -0500
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The attachment is an Ada95 binding to the C function "system."

The binding is portable across operating systems -- i.e., it's not
limited to Win32 platforms.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik M�llberg" <mollberg@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: July 04, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: run external .exe files within an ada program..


> how do I do that? does it exist any counterparts to "system" in perl or
something?
>
> (I'm developing in win32 environment)
>
> regards,
> Henrik
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------------------------------------------------------------------------=0A=
with Interfaces.C;=0A=
function Execute_Shell_Command (The_Command_String : String)=0A=
      return Interfaces.C.Int is=0A=
   package C renames Interfaces.C;=0A=
   function System (S : C.Char_Array) return C.Int;=0A=
   pragma Import (C, System, "system");=0A=
begin=0A=
   return System (C.To_C (The_Command_String));=0A=
end Execute_Shell_Command;=0A=

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