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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada facility for determining dimensions (height/width) for
 display/print character string?
Date: 30 Oct 2002 04:59:41 -0600
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In article <d7Fv9.159526$qM2.49673@sccrnsc02>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
>>Does Ada have a facility for determining the dimensions (height and =
>>width) that it will take to display/print a given string of characters?
>   Yes.  When an Ada program is controlling a skywriter, characters are
> 100 meters square.

But don't think your program will automatically port to the new
generation of 200 meters square skywriters, as you may get an
arithmetic overflow and if your program does not handle the exception
correctly you will spill skywriter ink all over the sports stadium :-)