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From: nickroberts@ukf.net (Nick Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Ada Characters?
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:58:46 GMT
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:30:39 GMT, Wannabe h4x0r <chris@dont.spam.me>
strongly typed:

>This usually works fine. All I have to do is use a loop to however many
>lines my terminal will support in order to page the output on screen.

I feel sure I can get away with providing a couple of hints. First, it is
not necessary or advisable to deal with control codes: use Get_Line and
New_Line. Second, you may (or may not) wish to detect End_of_Page, and
perhaps stop displaying lines in the current 'frame' when encountering one.

For the sake of clean programming (at least), I suggest two text buffers
are kept: one for the file name, and one for buffering lines of text as
they are read in. Two other variables should be kept, integers, containing
the actual length of the string in each text buffer.

-- 
Nick Roberts