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,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Received: by 2002:a24:160f:: with SMTP id
 a15-v6mr1195088ita.7.1531851699471;
        Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:21:39 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 2002:aca:75c9:: with SMTP id
 q192-v6mr676833oic.3.1531851699186;
 Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:21:39 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!d7-v6no1093594itj.0!news-out.google.com!n194-v6ni968itg.0!nntp.google.com!g2-v6no1105833itf.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:21:38 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <dc7f199d-d0af-4c19-a27f-8884ba5547de@googlegroups.com>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.113.16.86;
 posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC
NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.113.16.86
References: <dc7f199d-d0af-4c19-a27f-8884ba5547de@googlegroups.com>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <c1ba1794-3967-4495-b5ff-4e27b3bcfeca@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: How to run a GNAT program without starting a terminal session
From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:21:39 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53877
Date: 2018-07-17T11:21:38-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 7:20:50 PM UTC-6, Jerry wrote:
> How can I get Ada (GNAT) to run a program that has no text I/O without la=
unching a terminal session? Specifically, on macOS, I have the following pr=
ogram. When I double-click it, it runs but first it opens Terminal.app and =
starts a session. I played with calling it from Applescript but without suc=
cess. Can I make a bash file that doesn't start a terminal session?
>=20
>=20
> with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar;
> with Common; -- Contains "Beep".
>=20
> procedure Run is
> begin
>     Delay 4.0;
>     Common.Beep(1);
> end Run;
>=20
>=20
> Jerry

Since you're talking about GNAT in particular you can use GNAT's System.OS_=
Lib package as detailed in the last example here: https://rosettacode.org/w=
iki/Execute_a_system_command#Ada