From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e66fe8b30e3ee2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: S'Write and How To Count Bytes Date: 2000/10/02 Message-ID: <39D8EF78.27E5649F@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 676768617 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 2 Oct 2000 20:26:45 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Quadrus Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-02T20:26:45+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@bix.com wrote: > How about dropping the initial byte count and use an end-of-record > indicator instead, like LF in Text_IO? Clearly, one could do that. You could build your whole protocol as if it were trading lines of text. The bad news is that for the particular app I'm looking at, I've got an already defined set of messages. What I am hoping to do is find a nice, tidy way of using Ada95 to get at that message catalog and build support tools that connect to the existing system. If the answer is really good, I might even be able to sell the notion of changing the existing system and eliminate some really butt-ugly code. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke ======================================================================