Re: Ada95 Streams

[david_jones_98@yahoo.com]

> What I usually do, is to read the data into a block of memory, than use the
> System.Address_To_Access_Conversions package to create an access type and
> value to the records inside it.

Thanks for the reply, but it would be more difficult for me to use this
approach in my situation as the block of data I need to read from
contains variable length strings, and hence I need to first read a record
that contains the length of the string.

So my question still is, how do I implement a stream type from a buffer in
memory?

> The DLL2DEF package on my homepage uses this.

Nice page :), however it seems to me that in your program, you are using
stream_io where you could have used direct_io, ie. you aren't using the
sequential properties of the stream, but instead just read in the whole file.

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