Ada replacements for DOS I/O

["Elgar the Idiot aka Chris Warwick" <cwarwick@fox.nstn.ns.ca>]

We just got burned on a project using Alsys Ada. Seems we had assumed that 
a multi-tasking Ada program would perform I/O is parallel with other 
processing. The system service call actucally halts all processing in the 
program until the system service is complete...

I don't mean to burn Alsys, since the bug(?) also exists in the Verdix 
compiler we are using. The difference is the Verdix is for Unix so we just 
sidestepped the problem by not using Ada tasks...

Does anyone know of any replacements for the DOS I/O (specifically the Disk 
I/O operations) compatable with Alsys Ada?
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 Chris Warwick
 cwarwick@fox.nstn.ns.ca
 warwick@anchor.hfx.prior.ca