From: Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>
Subject: Re: Text_IO from a stream
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:54:35 +0200
Date: 2008-03-31T22:54:35+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47f14f8c_2@news.bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1rmypswe6uyhs.10fy5p7ytb4os$.dlg@40tude.net>
Dmitry A. Kazakov:
> Yes, but will that be ASCII-encoded? And it has somehow invent lines and
> pages.
Sure, it is indeed a zip-archived text file that I intend to read through
UnZip.Streams.
Meanwhile (#ada irc...) there seems to be a nice solution:
http://jesselang.com/software/streams_text_io/
...
>> Well, I think I'll switch to a binary format...
>
> I would do that too. Also I would override 'Read and 'Write in order to
> make it platform-independent. (Stream_Element should be replaced by
> octets.)
No problem with that - there is already a framework in that package (for other
files) that sends things byte-per-byte in a deterministic endianess; floats are
split/merged with certain a Float_portable_binary_transfer package.
Thanks for the help!
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-31 15:27 Text_IO from a stream gautier_niouzes
2008-03-31 15:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 16:05 ` gautier_niouzes
2008-03-31 16:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 19:17 ` Gautier
2008-03-31 19:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-31 20:54 ` Gautier [this message]
2008-04-01 7:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-01 20:49 ` Simon Wright
2008-04-02 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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