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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/03/01
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Date: 1997-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
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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.