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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Latin_1 and portability
Date: 12 Dec 2003 17:41:33 -0600
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In article <gcednamCzLqiekqi4p2dnA@comcast.com>, "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:
> Xavier Serrand wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> For return (or enter)
>> 
>> when using Text_Io.Get_Immediate (E);

> If you are reading from a file, then you can let Text_IO handle the 
> issue, even if the file format is one where the end of a line is 
> represented implicitly with a character count.  (Not too common 
> anymore.)  But you are trying to read from a user input device.  What do 
> you get?  Whatever the user gives you, as mapped by the OS. ;-)

Are you saying that some implementations of TEXT_IO.GET_LINE do not
handle OS terminals properly ?

I thought GET_LINE was the way around OS-dependencies in this area.