From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/03/01
Date: 1997-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f9jit$5j4$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3315A1BF.3C1D@watson.ibm.com
In article <3315A1BF.3C1D@watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes:
>Who said anything about text files? The topic of this discussion is
>direct I/O, and the type Count provided by instances of Ada.Direct_IO.
>Scientific and multimedia applications with data files of potentially
>more than 2 billion items are commonplace.
Not only that, but consider writing an "fsck" in Ada. There the disk
is a single file, and many disks are larger than 2GB.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-11 0:00 How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO? Dale Stanbrough
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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