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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:09:22 -0400
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The scenario you describe is kind of where I was going with communications
links. Probably the most popular link today would be TCP/IP - although I
hesitate to make the claim because someone will come out of the woodwork
challenging that. Certainly, its *one* of the most popular. Throw on top of
that Sockets and you have a very common way of building distributed apps.
Streams would be a natural way to connect to Sockets and you'd quite often
be building a Socket system with the same compiler on the same or similar
machines. So even though streams aren't highly portable (at least in terms
of using 'Input and 'Output - but that is by far not the only means of
getting data into a stream) in all communications apps, you could still see
that a lot of communications could be 8-bit byte oriented and streams would
want to hook up to that.

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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> Well, I'd actually throw out the "data along communication links" one.
Data put
> in streams is just *not* portable, unless extreme efforts are put forth to
make
> it so (eg: GLADE).
>
> Without a lot of effort, streams are really only useful for dealing with
data
> that is going to be read and written from Ada code on the same type of
platform
> compiled with the same compiler.
>