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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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In article <395hl0$ai0@pegasus.rutgers.edu> yorkie@pegasus.rutgers.edu (Sandra Buyo) writes:

>Basically the code needs to be added in where the ***'s are!!  I
>recognise this to be similiar to pascal but I am not familiar with the 
>syntax of ada !!

>    task type buffer is

I think most of the answer can be found in the Ada Rationale,
Section 13.2.5, p 280.  It gives the complete body of the
BUFFER task, and seems to be the source from which your
example has been plag^H^H^H^H adopted.

Also, the version you gave contains a couple of errors and
infelicities, that are not present in the original version.