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From: Jason King <jhking@airmail.net>
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I'm new to ada but am familiar with a lot of other languages (
c/c++,pascal, oracle pl/sql etc.)
variables, control structures and user written packages are all pretty
clear to me.
The only issue I have is that I don't have a good reference for the
standard packages in the ada hierarchy.
Maybe I'm dense, but the arm seems kind of obtuse to me.
There are lots of references to the c standard library on the web, is
there someplace I can find that same info for ada?
My immediate problem is how to read/write binary files.
I've found text_io but that doesn't look like quite what I want.
Thanks for any pointers given.