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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,da8a419b0e3fda81
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-17 01:56:49 PST
Path: 
 bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!svc.portal.com!portal!cup.portal.com!Lee_Robert_Willis
From: Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Message-ID: <122484@cup.portal.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 18:47:58 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
References: <355kao$38d@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <355rv4$eg8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
Date: 1994-09-15T18:47:58-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

>sequential_io instantiated for a byte or character type may work, but is
>not guaranteed, and may well be gruseomely slow.

FWIW: This will not work under VMS.  (Been there, tried that)

   -lee     Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com