From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,24a59fbc07128ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-04 15:38:07 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: rename missing in Text_IO Message-ID: References: Organization: LJK Software Date: 4 May 2001 18:38:04 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 989015886 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 04 May 2001 22:38:06 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 22:38:06 GMT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7187 Date: 2001-05-04T18:38:04-05:00 List-Id: In article , "Beard, Frank" 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.