RE: rename missing in Text_IO

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <mailman.989009524.30396.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
> But why not be part of the standard, maybe in an Annex.  I
> almost sympathize with what Ted's saying.  But by his reasoning,
> Ada.Command_Line shouldn't be provided either, because the OS
> has an interface to do it.  For that matter, none of the IO should
> be there because we could pragma interface to all those routines.
> 
> I would love to see file handling expanded.  Renaming a file
> should be there just as the Delete is there.

Unlike Delete, the legality of Rename is going to vary from operating
system to operating system.  If you rename into a different directory
on VMS, that directory must be on the same physical disk.  With rooted
directories, begin on the same disk is not obvious by comparing the old
and new filespecs.