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From: bigelow@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jim Bigelow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: System Calls from a Pascal program
Message-ID: <9110010@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 17:36:44 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Hi Dave,

>    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 HP pascal on the HP9000/S300 all that's required is to  declare the 
C library routine as external, e.g., 
    	function mkdir $alias '_mkdir'$ (
	    	path :str; 
	    	mode: integer): integer; external;
Converting the pascal string to a C null terminated string is a little tricky!

Good luck,

Jim Bigelow
S300 Pascal