Re: PC System Call

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

There is an example on AdaPower of using GNAT.OS_Lib.getenv -
http://www.adapower.com/lang/gnat-os-getenv.html

If you need to, you can look at the source of  GNAT.OS_Lib (included with
the gnat distributions) and see how it is done.

David Botton



"John Cupak" <Jcupak744@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:ZtcM8.49323$KD3.980836@typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net...
> I teach Ada 95 using N. Cohen's "Ada as a Second Language, 2ed".
>
> In the past, the students used UNIX workstations, and I assigned them
> the GETENV problem from them book. You know, call the UNIX
> getenv function with an environment variable, and get the mapped
> results back. We used all the C interface libraries, and it work just
> like in the book!
>
> But, now we've replaced all the UNIX workstations with PCs, and I
> need a similar problem to give the students.
>
> Does anyone have a nice, simple, Ada 95 "call" to an existing PC
> library function (even a DLL?) that I can substitute for the GETENV
> problem?
>
> Let me know both here, as well as my work email: John_J_Cupak@raytheon.com
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>