Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?

[Bj�rn Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>]

On 5 Nov 2002 06:30:59 -0800
dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote:

> Bj rn Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> wrote in message
>news:<20021104233454.2042ef78.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>...
> > I'm writing a little program that reads from standard in and writes to
> > standard out, but I'd need to treat them as raw files of bytes or
> > characters, and Text_IO's line-oriented features get in my way. When
> 
> Supposedly, that's what Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams is there for (see
> A.12.2(6)  - http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-A-12-2.html
> ). I've never tried writing binary data to Standard_Output myself
> though, so I can't say how/if it works.

Hmm, I didn't try that because I assumed that it would write through the
usual Standard_Output, and so the line break would be added anyways, but
maybe I should give it a try.

Bj�rn Persson