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: 1994-09-16 18:43:54 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!R_Tim_Coslet From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file? Message-ID: <122506@cup.portal.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 22:00:58 PDT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Distribution: world References: <355kao$38d@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <357u2t$ho8@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 1994-09-15T22:00:58-07:00 List-Id: >In article <355rv4$eg8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Robert Dewar, dewar@cs.nyu.edu writes: >>sequential_io instantiated for a byte or character type may work, but is >>not guaranteed, and may well be gruseomely slow. >> >>best get is just to use pragma interface and use the appropriate unix >>routines directly, whjy not> > >Because I wanted a portable solution that wasn't tied to a particular >operating system. It may be that there are comparable routines on _all_ >operating systems, but it still (potentially) leaves you with code to change >when porting. > >Dale >------------------------------------------------------------- >Dale Stanbrough, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, dale@rmit.edu.au >GNU Ada 94 (GNAT) => the best $0 you'll ever spend. >Available for DOS, Linux, OS/2, Sun Sparc, Sun Solaris, ... >Coming to a GNU supported platform near you soon... Or maybe the code will eventually be used in an embedded environment that has NO operating system of any kind, just a small Ada Runtime customized to the hardware environment. R. Tim Coslet Usenet: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com technology, n. domesticated natural phenomena