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Thanks to all for the help with this problem. Martin, Dimtry and Dennis 
all made good points that I will remember going forward.

Thanks again to Simon for the original answer.

Bill

Martin Krischik wrote:

> bm34mailing wrote:
> 
> 
>>with Ada;
>>use Ada;
>>
>>to make the contents of Ada (i.e Text_IO) visible. This works as I
>>expected. This does not seem like the best way to resolve the problem,
>>but I am less than two days into learning about Ada, so I will reserve
>>final judgment until my understanding of the syntax improves.
> 
> 
> For a beginner the best option is not to use "use" at all. OK, you have to
> type a lot more but understanding will be better.
> 
> Later, when you have the understanding use "use" selective. "with" need to
> be placed before package - "use" does not:
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO;
> 
> package ...
> 
>   procedure ...
>   is
>      use Ada.Text_IO;
>   begin
>   end ...;
> 
> end ...;
> 
> is just as vaild. And the reason why there are two of them.
> 
> With Regards
> 
> Martin