Re: HELP: PC System Call

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"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

Well if you did the reasonable thing and ran GNU/Linux on your PC's, you would
not even be asking this question :-)

Even if for some reason you are running Microsoft systems, this should still
work fine (interfacing to getenv) if you have an appropriate compiler interfaced.