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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Extracting Fields in Files
Date: 2000/01/14
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In article <85nsv7$b6b$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  jmoor@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <85l7t4$18c$1@hobbes2.crc.com>,
> I have not found "stream io" explained in any book.  The RM seems
> unintelligible (I don't speak Noir notation). I can't find an example
> of stream io.  Isn't there an easy way of reading binary in Ada
> (eg. "r+b").  I will surely loose what little sanity I have, if I have
> to code in C.

Well, you could use Sequential_IO. But I'd think streams would be the
easiest approach. Cohen's Ada as a Second Language devotes a couple of
pages to Stream_IO.

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