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From: Michael Moeller <mic2@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: xor
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:28:55 +0100
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Niklas Holsti wrote:

> But, from the solution that Georg gave you, it seems that your difficulty was 
> not about I/O in Ada, but about the Ada package concept, context clauses 
> ("with"), and perhaps generics, none of which are specifically related to 
> I/O, and all of which you need to know anyway, in order to be productive in 
> Ada.
That's right. I had to start somewhere but quickly got stuck. First I 
didn't find anything on byte-level I/O in my documentation, then there was
this problem with visibility.

>
> Two ways:
>
> - Ada.Directories.Size, given the file name.
> - Ada.Direct_IO.Size, given an open (Direct_IO) file.
>
Thanks.

Regards,
Michael