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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> 
> Therefore, your program should look like:
>       with Ada.Text_IO;          use Ada.Text_IO;
>       procedure Ito is
>          C : Character;
>       begin
>          while not End_Of_File loop
>             if End_Of_Line then
>                Skip_Line;
>                New_Line;
>             else
>                Get (Item => C);
>                Put (Item => C);
>             end if;
>          end loop;
>       end Ito;

Except that, given a file that ends with a blank line, Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File 
may return True before the final blank line has been detected. The general rule 
is to not use Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File, and handle the resulting End_Error.

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