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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?
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Bj rn Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> wrote in message news:<20021108010337.395c1a90.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>...
> I don't think Text_IO's design is a problem in itself. It can be 
> quite useful when working with text files. 

Actually, I do think so. It is quite possible to create "text files"
in an editor that don't have a line terminator on the last line. I've
had problems in the past with Ada Text_IO ignoring such lines, causing
an important line in a configuration file to be ignored. I can
understand the arcania behind the rule, and tell myself to make sure I
put a line terminator on the last line whenever I'm editing. However,
users who aren't Ada developers just don't understand, and (probably
rightly) consider it a bug.