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Subject: Re: How to write "Hello" to a text file without a line terminator
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Date: 2016-08-13T02:12:47-07:00
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Am Samstag, 13. August 2016 06:23:16 UTC+2 schrieb Jeffrey R. Carter:
> On 08/12/2016 08:21 PM, Jerry wrote:
> > 
> > Using Ada.Sequential_IO instantiated for String puts out eight spaces before Hello or longer strings.
> 
> Are you sure they're spaces?

No, it's not spaces, it's the length of the string output: Since (on my machine), Integer'Size=32, it's four bytes.
Let'say, yout output
  Write (f, "abcdef");
You'll get (in bytes):
  6 0 0 0 97 98 99 100 101 102
And for a length of 256, you'll get:
  0 1 0 0 ...