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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimization Question
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:05:08 GMT
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In article <94g920$k64$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  dvdeug@my-deja.com wrote:
> Unfortunately, that "perfectly gruesome manner" is the only
> one that jumps out at me. I don't want to use Ada.Text_IO,
> because I want control of CR's and LF's.

Using sequential I/O is horribly inefficient AND non-portable.
You have no way of knowing the format of such a file, and to
assume that individual characters are read as records is an
asumption not warranted by the RM (though it likely may work).

The proper approach is to use stream_io here, and read in giant
chunks of the file.


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