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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: CRC in Ada?
Date: 1997/03/21
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> *misuse* an Ada 83 I/O package and write highly
> non-portable code that relied on the inner workings of sequential_io 
Wow, I'm sure glad I didn't know when I started trying Ada that you
couldn't read a sequential file of fixed length records with the thing
called "Sequential_IO"!  I would have dropped it and stayed with
something reasonable, like C.   @.@