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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Binary files vs Portablity vs Ada
Date: 1999/11/05
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In article <7vt67r$qv0$1@coward.ks.cc.utah.edu> , nahaj@u.cc.utah.edu 
(John Halleck) wrote:

>   Is there even a portable way to get the "raw" bits for a file that
>   works on all machines supporting Ada?  (So that it can be handed
>   to a bit oriented version of SHA.)

Are you using Stream_IO to read in the raw data?  Does Stream_Element
type already handle machine differences?

Matt
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