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Date: 7 Feb 93 02:09:11 GMT
From: mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!emagnuso@uunet.uu.net  (Erik Magnuson)
Subject: Re: Two "Simple" I/O Questions
Message-ID: <1993Feb7.020911.28040@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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In article <1993Feb5.083009.26460@cs.ucla.edu> gast@CS.UCLA.EDU (David Gast) wr
ites:
>Essentially, I just want a program like "cp" or "cat".  All it has
>to do is copy the input to the output.  I have found two problems.
>
>1) Text_IO does not handle 8-bit characters.  Is there another
>   package which does?
>
Two suggestions:
1) Use Sequential_IO instantiated for an 8 bit type. However, this may
rather inefficient if your implementation does a poor job of IO
buffering.

2) If none of the other IO packages doe what you want, write your own
using OS primitives. It's not that hard, honest.

-- 
Erik