a simple Sequential_IO question

a simple Sequential_IO question

[Defender of The Faith]

Hello Netlanders:

        I personally know very little about Ada.  I am sending this on
behalf of a professor who is having problems with VAX Ada.  He is trying
to do simple sequential I/O in his program.

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with Sequential_Io;
use Sequential_Io;

procedure file_test is
        infyle, outfyle: file_type;
        var : integer;
begin
        open(infyle, in_file,"input.fil");
        create(outfyle,out_file,"output.fil");
        while not end_of_file(infyle) loop
                read(infyle,var);
                write(outfyle,var);
        end loop;
        close(outfyle);
        close(infyle);
end file_test;

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When I include "use sequential_io", the compiler keeps on telling me
that "sequential_io" is not a generic package.  The professor claims
that the above program works with an Ada compiler on the PC.

I tried to instantiate the package with:

        package s_io is new sequential(integer);
        use s_io;

But that still won't work.  Will some of you Ada gurus out there
help me with this rather simple question?  A sample program with
"sequential_io" would be of great help.

Thanks in advance for any help

P.S. We are running VMS 4.5 on a VAX 8650.

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