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On Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 7:01:45 PM UTC-7, jdgre...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I use Ada 2012 to write Windows programs; my usual compiler is 32-bit TDM-gcc which implements the gcc-5.1.0 version of the Ada compiler.
> 
> My problem is a simple one: i need to produce a program which reads lines from a text file; if a line meets a requirement, it is written to an output file; if it does not meet the requirement it is not written to the output file.
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> The annoyance that I must deal with is the fact that the files are not Windows text files, which use the <cr><lf> convention to terminate text lines.
> 
> The files use a single <cr> as the line terminator.
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> Is there a way to get Ada.Text_IO to use a line terminator that is not the default for the operation system on which the program runs?

I think you have to do it character-by-character in this case.
There's a library called PragmaARC (IIRC) that has Text_IO packages for non-native text, you might want to take a look there.