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From: v025@truman.edu (Chad R. Meiners)
Subject: Re: beginner question re: user input & output to screen
Date: 1999/02/15
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In article <m3iud3tu6s.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>, matthew_heaney@acm.org says...
>
>fluffy_dong@dsuper.net writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm in this programming class and I have a program to hand in.
>> There's a place in the program where I'm supposed to display a table
>> and leave it there until the user presses <Enter>.  I don't know how
>> to do this.  The only way I know to make my program "stop and wait" is
>> by using "GET", but GET seems to require that the user types
>> something, anything, before he/she presses <Enter>.
>
>Use Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line.
>
>
>
Perhaps Ada.Text_IO.Skip_Line would be better since he really doesn't need any
data returned.

-Chad R. Meiners