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From: edsall@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu (David M. Edsall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: System Calls from a Pascal program
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Date: 15 Feb 90 22:55:51 GMT
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    Can anyone out there give the procedure and/or function calls that should
be used to do a Unix system call from inside of a Pascal program. The syntax
and an example would be helpful as well. What I am looking for is a way to
create a directory from inside a Pascal program. In Fortran all I would need
to do is something like

       call system('mkdir <fn>')

or something of that nature.


     My department is using a Vax running 4.3 BSD Unix.

   Thanks,

 - dave