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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Win32 filetype problem
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:17:45 +0100
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Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com> wrote in message
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> System: WIntel NT, GNAT 3.13p
[snip]
> declare
>    function To_LPCSTR is
>       new Ada.Unchecked_Conversion (Source => System.Address,
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm an idiot, this should be Chars_Ptr...

>                                     Target => Win32.LPCSTR);
>    C_Filename : Chars_Ptr := New_String (Trimmed_Filename);
>    Result : Win32.DWORD;
> begin
>   Result := Win32.Winbase.GetFileAttributesA (lpFileName => To_LPCSTR (S
=>
>      C_Filename'Address));
                 ^^^^^^^^
...and then remove this!