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From: serious@clerk.com (Noam Kloos)
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Subject: Re: rename missing in Text_IO
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:00:55 GMT
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On Fri, 04 May 2001 13:43:27 GMT, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
wrote:

>In article <3af28c5a.12778070@news.nl.uu.net>, Noam Kloos says...
>
>>I just played with filtering some textfiles and found there is no
>>function to rename a file;
>
>That's right. There's no function to delete a file, or list a directory either.
>That's all stuff that's considered part of the OS, and thus you are expected to
>make the appropriate OS calls for your platform. Most of the time, your Ada
>vendor will have supplied a package that has bindings to those OS calls, but
>what it is depends on your vendor and platform.
>

I did a workaround for the rename effect.
see my zip file http://www.noam.nl/download/stripit.zip
I read  a file into a new one, then delete the sourcefile and close
the destinationfile with the different name.

Noam.