From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada)
Date: 24 Nov 2005 07:06:26 -0600
Date: 2005-11-24T07:06:26-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6RoRY6$TpHEq@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 438582ab_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net
In article <438582ab_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net>, "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> I would expect those string packages (and especially the string IO
>> packages) would use operating system facilities in some
>> implementations.
>> The underlying operating system calls might not be symmetric at all.
>> The bodies might not even be written in Ada.
>
> They could always be 'defined' as proposed by Steve but the implementation
> might use 'magic' to make it happen.
I think magic is typically the least reliable part of an implementation.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-23 17:36 Filenames in Ada Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 18:09 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-24 19:16 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-23 18:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-24 19:13 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-24 20:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-24 21:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-25 7:12 ` krischik
2005-11-25 12:25 ` [OT] VMS ODS-5 filesystems, was: " Simon Clubley
2005-11-25 18:01 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-25 18:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-25 19:54 ` Martin Krischik
[not found] ` <gjqeo157udsnbfuq8ak4dosf6nep5fomss@4ax.com>
2005-11-27 9:31 ` [OT] VMS DCL prompt, was: " Martin Krischik
2005-11-30 0:16 ` [OT] Administrator accounts (was: VMS DCL prompt) Björn Persson
2005-11-30 4:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-23 22:18 ` Filenames in Ada Randy Brukardt
2005-11-24 3:21 ` Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada) Steve
2005-11-24 4:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-24 9:15 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-24 11:30 ` Silly question about strings Brian May
2005-11-24 13:06 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-11-29 3:17 ` Silly question about strings (was: Filenames in Ada) Randy Brukardt
2005-11-29 5:53 ` tmoran
2005-11-29 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-11-30 0:15 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-24 19:05 ` Filenames in Ada Martin Krischik
2005-11-25 6:54 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-26 1:22 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-27 10:21 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-30 0:13 ` Björn Persson
2005-12-01 6:59 ` Martin Krischik
2005-12-03 1:07 ` Björn Persson
2005-12-14 6:59 ` Dave Thompson
2005-12-15 20:23 ` Martin Krischik
2005-12-17 0:22 ` program privileges (was: Filenames in Ada) Georg Bauhaus
2005-12-17 16:59 ` Filenames in Ada Simon Wright
2005-12-17 23:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-12-18 13:30 ` privileges in Unix and VMS (was: Filenames in Ada) Björn Persson
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