Re: Preferred way to do binray I/O on standard input/output stream

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

On 25 oct, 00:57, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org>
wrote:
> Package Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams (ARM A.12.2) allows converting
> Ada.Text_IO.File_Type to Stream_Access and reading and writing them through the
> capabilities of streams. This allows converting standard input and output to
> Stream_Access, since Ada.Text_IO provides the functions Standard_Input and
> Standard_Output which return Ada.Text_IO.File_Type.

So I was lucky to ask about it here

There is further more a note in ARM 12.2, which says (annotated
reference) :

> NOTES
> 6  35 The ability to obtain a stream for a text file allows
> Current_Input, Current_Output, and Current_Error to be processed
> with the functionality of streams, including the mixing of text and
> binary input-output, and the mixing of binary input-output for
> different types.
> 7  36 Performing operations on the stream associated with a text file
> does not affect the column, line, or page counts.

Now I feel I've already seen this in the past, but later forget

Thanks Jeffrey