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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: GNAT/Ada95 Streams Performance Issue
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hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl (Waldek Hebisch) wrote in message news:<aj8j3t$bmn$1@panorama.wcss.wroc.pl>...

>         loop
>                 Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line( Line, Last );
>                 Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line( Line(1..Last) );
>         end loop;

This is nothing *like* a "raw cat" program, it has quite
subtle semantics that you likely do not intend :-)

The proper way to do a big copy is with Stream_IO. The
design of Text_IO is definitely not suitable for large
scale file operations.