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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: How to get a character?
Date: 1999/04/12
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In article <3711753C.A665E406@spam.innocon.com>,
  Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com> wrote:
> Again, I see people recommending Ada.Text_Io.Get_Line as
> the way to perform the "Press Enter [or Return] to
> continue:" function. This is
> incorrect.

I don't see that, providing you use a big buffer, e.g.
a few hundred K, which in typical commit on use systems
is not real space allocated, you cannot run into problems.


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