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From: "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Streams
Date: 1998/12/11
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krreagan@yahoo.com wrote in message <74pdkb$22v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>We are implementing a message passing mechanism with two nodes on an
isolated
>network and would like to use Ada.Streams to pass the messages. The
>LRM/Rational are not very detailed on the use of streams (Also Cohen is
very
>sparse on this subject).
>
>We need to pack a message (Ada record) in to a stream and pass this through
>our system (and maybe across the RS-232 serial link), when it gets to it's
>destination we need to unpack it into the original data structure. Streams
>seem to be the way to go but the documentation isn't very good. Any help
>(preferably in the form of a small example) would be much appreciated.
>
You may find a couple of examples at my web site instructive, viz.:

ftp://ftp.ada95.com/pub/tagged_types.tgz
ftp://ftp.ada95.com/pub/pet_store.tgz