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In the GLOBE_3D and Zip-Ada projects (from link below) you'll
find the generic Intel_nb functions that do the I/O by merging/splitting 
integers of various sizes from/to bytes (the way Ludovic described).
It is in the packages GLOBE_3D.IO and Zip.Headers respectively.

On the other hand, I kind of remember having read about a GNAT-only way 
to replace some run-time package to obtain the same with less efforts: 
T'Read could be doable with a specific endianess, no need to load in 
small pieces. Maybe I'm dreaming ?...

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