From: bachww@motcid.UUCP (Bud Bach)
Subject: Re: VAX Extended Character Set
Date: 10 May 91 22:59:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7125@saffron12.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9105081418.AA01018@bunny.gte.com
diederich_r_%ncsd.dnet@GTE.COM (Ray Diederich (301)-294-8400) writes:
>Is there anyone out there who knows how to read text files containing
>eight-bit characters using VAX Ada? I have used UNCHECKED_CONVERSION and
>TEXT_IO to write eight-bit characters into text files, but attempts to read
>any files with eight-bit characters causes a DATA_ERROR exception.
Well, to do this within the language, you'd have to define a 8 bit
character type and use sequential_io on it. I doubt that this is
the answer you wanted to hear though... -- Bud
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