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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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