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From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
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Subject: Re: Why do the escape sequences not work?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:15:06 -0500
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"GlesgaMick" <sikmick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> so much for the whole 'ada is great
> because of its compatibilty' line.

Umm, this problem has nothing to do with Ada.  You were relying on certain
Windows platform functionality being present, and that changed between
Windows OS incarnations.  The same problem would have occurred with any
programming language.

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies
www.mckae.com