From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f890526de6a8a218 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!news-router2.astraweb.com!207.217.77.102.MISMATCH!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to detect OS type and version? References: <20051013115001.60b6a695@pscube.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <20051013115001.60b6a695@pscube.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:12:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.218.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1129227161 67.3.218.11 (Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:12:41 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:12:41 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5604 Date: 2005-10-13T18:12:41+00:00 List-Id: Stefan Bellon wrote: > What we are doing is this: We configure our project for the target > operating system and during that configuration, a small file with > content similar to the following is generated: > > separate (Bauhaus.OS) > function Get_OS return String is > begin > return "GNU/Linux"; > end Get_OS; Is there some reason you're using String rather than an enumerated type? -- Jeff Carter "I fart in your general direction." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 05