From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 30 Oct 92 15:11:10 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohi o-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!jbg@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Goodenough) Subject: Re: sequential io with multiple types Message-ID: <1992Oct30.151110.11059@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: In article <1992Oct27.174052.6058@linus.mitre.org>, jclander@maestro.mitre.org (Julian C. Lander) writes: |> Perhaps I missed something (I've only caught part of this discussion), but |> why are you writing multiple types to the same file? Why not use record typ es, |> with or without discriminant? Presumably the file was written by a non-Ada application. John B. Goodenough Goodenough@sei.cmu.edu Software Engineering Institute 412-268-6391