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From: france.suisse@gmail.com (Steph-ADA)
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Subject: Re: Advanced file manipulation (multiple question)
Date: 2 Mar 2005 02:31:55 -0800
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Hello!

Thanks for your helpful advices, and sorry for 1/my english,
2/abscence of details and 3/my error about Lady Lovelace name, Ada
(and not ADA or anything else). I Hope this next post would be better
:)

So, first, my OS: Windows 2000 Pro. I use Gnat 3.15 (public).
I started Ada as a student, with few advices and then... concurrent
programming the next week (semaphore etc...), that was rather... hard,
for beginners!
So, my excuse if I don't know how call OS functions... maybe you have
links where I can find tutorials about this ?

> If you use Ada.Direct_Io, there is a nice way to read the file in one read, 
> but it takes two steps.
>   First create an instance of Ada.Direct_Io of bytes.
>   Open the file as bytes.
>   Use the size function to get the size of the file.
>   Close the file
>   Create an instance of Ada.Direct_IO with an element that is the size of 
> the file (an array of bytes maybe?).
>   Read the file (a single read)
>   Close the file.

This answer seems easier for me, and I'll add a "compare-file"
procedure... I'm a bit paranoid :)

Thanks a lot for your help

Steph