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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:E1HJc.101277$Oq2.96646@attbi_s52...
> Sorry for the blank reply (obese finger)
>
> The easiest way to read an entire file into a string, if you're looking
for
> speed, is to
> use Ada.Direct_Io;
...

That's how you'd do that in Ada 83, but in Ada 95 you could do the same with
Stream_IO, without needing the weird instantiations. (Yes, you'd be assuming
that Stream_Element'Size = Character'Size, but since this technique really
only works on Windows and Unix anyway [as noted by others], that's not an
issue.)

                        Randy.