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From: "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Reading variable-length records from a file
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:37:23 -0700
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What is the best method for reading variable-length records from a file, using Ada (generic Ada, or GNAT)?  I have some files, from
a VMS system, that I want to read on a Win2K system.  The files have the VMS standard "implied carriage control", which means that
each "record" (or line; it's a text file) has a two-byte count value, followed by "count" bytes (characters).

 -Brian