Re: Pageless Text_IO

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <80qqae$8a22@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:57:05 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >page breaks. There is no problem in skipping page breaks
using
> >Text_IO.
> If I'm reading the ARM & GNAT's source correctly, reading a
page
> break will reset the line count. So if I need a count of the
> current line, that ignores page breaks, I need to keep it
myself,
> right?


Yes, and in general trying to use Text_IO's view of what a
line number means is probably a poor idea. For example it
would not work at all on Ada source (since VT ends a line
for the Ada source program, but not for Text_IO!)


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