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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7936408ed8296efa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-17 13:47:21 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!titan03.ksc.nasa.gov!niven.ksc.nasa.gov!usenet From: "Samuel T. Harris" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: User define attributes Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:35:09 -0500 Organization: Raytheon Aerospace Engineering Services Message-ID: <3ADCA8FD.2D6C65F7@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> References: <9b9g7c$cp6$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ada9cf5$1@pull.gecm.com> <9behk1$ik9$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3adad7ab$1@pull.gecm.com> <3ADB033A.F10344A9@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <3adb0ba1$1@pull.gecm.com> <3ADB1BAA.6F4E0437@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <9bf8uj$7e9$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADB6B71.386A647E@gsde.hou.us.ray.com> <9bhd8o$jp6$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: samuel_t_harris@raytheon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sstf-fw.jsc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6956 Date: 2001-04-17T15:35:09-05:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > Samuel T. Harris (u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com) wrote: > > : One of the inconveniences in my experience with using streams > : or other binary representation for transmission is that I > : cannot simply use a network sniffer to spoof the contents. > : If I'm passing all data packets with textual contents, I can > : read what a distributed system is doing with any old spoofer. > > So you could write your own 'Write or 'Output and > use text streams. Am I missing something? My prior effort was for Ada 83, no streams. While what you suggest would work, there is a lot more overhead to setting up streams. And it doesn't address my original question, if the mechanism was in place to define streams, why is it not in place for image/value/width? -- Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services "If you can make it, We can fake it!"