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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Pageless Text_IO
Date: 1999/11/16
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In article <80qarp$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> I'm writing a compiler. Programmers tend to embed form feeds
in
> the text, without expecting the compiler to worry about them.
> In particular, "Page 7: Line 1: Invalid character" wouldn't
> amuse most programmers. Is there any way to tell the compiler
> to ignore page breaks?

Which compiler? The one you are writing? If so, only you can
answer this question. The Ada compiler itself should ignore
page breaks. There is no problem in skipping page breaks using
Text_IO.


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