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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:
> Coming back to I/O - what I miss in Ada is the equivalent of fread in
> C - that is, an operation that reads *up to* the given number of
> bytes. Or maybe there is something that I didn't notice? Such an
> operation is an important basis for custom buffered input. Without it
> the only way to reinvent a proper I/O is via direct bindings to
> system- level API.

Ada.Streams.Read (ARM 13.13.1(5)) does just that.
So does Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (ARM A.10.1(49)).

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.