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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Procedures Required for GNAT 3.10p (for DOS) Port
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:03:20 -0500
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For what's it's worth, all of that functionality is in the MS-DOS versions
of Janus/Ada, which are still available and supported (see
www.rrsoftware.com).

                 Randy.

"Debs Wisbey" <debs.wisbey@amsjv.com> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I am trying to port an old bit of code from the Alsys Compiler to GNAT
> 3.01p for DOS and have come across a few problems.  Unfortunately, my
> Ada knowledge is not a string as I would like or require and so have a
> limited knowledge of the available packages.
>
> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can call DOS commands from
> an Ada program that is running on a 386 machine that ONLY runs DOS.
>
> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can rename a file, given
> the old filename and new filename as strings.
>
> I am trying to write an Ada procedure that can write to/read from
> address locations.
>
> Does anyone know if there are any Ada packages that contain
> functionality to perform these tasks?
>
> Thank you for any help that you can give me,
> Debs.