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From: deadlyhead <deadlyhead@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Defaulting to Standard_Output
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On Oct 23, 6:49=A0pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

>
> Well, yes. =A0If you want to create a file, you need to call Create.
> There isn't anything in the Ada libraries that I know of that will
> create a file without you telling it to. =A0But why would that be a
> problem? =A0If Name /=3D "", call Create, then call Set_Output.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 -- Adam

Maybe I'm missing something here.  If I use Set_Output (Outfile), all
calls to Put or Put_Line without a File parameter go to Outfile,
correct?  They do not got to the Terminal/Standard_Output, right?

This is not what I want.  I want all output of the program to go to
Standard_Output if no name is given for Outfile.  It's like if `cat`
had an option '-o' that designated an output file.  `cat something.txt
-o outfile.txt` =3D `cat something.txt > outfile.txt`, but `cat
something.txt` outputs to the terminal.  That's the type of
functionality that I want.

Maybe it's just a pain to do, which is why no other programs are set
up like this.

-- deadlyhead