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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
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Subject: Re: Opening a File for Appending
Date: 6 Jan 1995 11:26:22 -0600
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In article <847@trident.datasys.swri.edu>,
Thomas Albrecht <TAlbrecht@SwRI.EDU> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to open a text file for appending.  I have
>checked the Ada Manual in both Ch. 14 (Input/Output) and Ch.13
>(system-dependent features) and have been unable to locate it.
>Thanks in advance for you help.
>

Um, in Ada95, one of the file modes is Append_File (for any of Text,
Sequential, Wide, and Stream_IO files).

Appending a file in Ada83 is OS dependent (unless the POSIX binding
supports this -- I'm not sure).


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