Re: AI-248 and counting the elements in an external file

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3ECFEB59.4010401@attbi.com>, "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
>> Meaning it is permissible to return the number of 512-byte disk blocks
>> (or file-specific-size tape blocks) for this function on VMS ?  Or is the
>> answer supposed to be normalized to bytes even though the number of
>> overhead bytes required (and thus the file size) will vary, for instance,
>> when copying a file from disk to tape ?
> 
> Let me answer differently.  VMS supports many file formats.  Ada stream 
> files would map nicely to VMS record oriented ANSI tape files.  There 
> are other VMS formats that I would not tend to support stream files for. 

But my understanding is that the Ada.Directory functions are to support
all files that might be accessed from Ada, and that is not limited to
stream files, nor to files written by Ada.