Re: Use of streams with Ada95

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Look at my web page (http://www.mcondic.com/) on the Ada Programming page
for a collection of code named "gnat_examples.chop" Search it for "Streams".
There are a couple of programs in there that do I/O to files using streams.
Note that to utilize streams with structured data (records, etc), you have a
kind of two stage process. First you have to use the 'Read and 'Write (or
'Input & 'Output) to get the structured data into the stream, then use the
Stream_IO facilities to get the data out or in to the file.

I may have a more detailed example around here somewhere of actually making
that happen if you need it, but I'd have to dig. If you know how to get the
data into and out of the stream, the I/O should be pretty straightforward.

MDC
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"Mike" <mikecorney@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3b0ed42f$1@news.zen.co.uk...
> Any one got an example of using streams for offline storage, i.e. to
provide
> interface to write and read back from storage. Booch and Barnes don't seem
> to describe this in much detail
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>