From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Reading variable-length records from a file
Date: 13 Aug 2001 13:51:28 -0500
Date: 2001-08-13T13:51:28-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5c62Jbeng+j@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9l93cp$bbf$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net
In article <9l93cp$bbf$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>, "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, the files were ZIPped up and sent to me; I don't have a VMS system to perform the conversion. Therefore, I want to
Does ZIP have a notion of text files ? It sounds like they were
ZIPped as binary.
> write an Ada program to convert the files for me. I could have written a C program to do this in the time it took for me to write
> the original post, but I want to "get both lobes around the Ada paradigm", and do it in Ada. So far, the only suggestion on
> actually doing the conversion in Ada was to read two characters, multiply the first by 256, add them together, and then read that
> number of characters from the file. GROSS! There has to be a better way!
Plus one if needed to make it an even number.
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2001-08-10 18:37 Reading variable-length records from a file Brian Catlin
2001-08-10 19:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-08-10 21:28 ` Mark Johnson
2001-08-13 8:14 ` Thierry Lelegard
2001-08-13 17:39 ` Brian Catlin
2001-08-13 18:29 ` tmoran
2001-08-13 18:51 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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2001-08-13 21:29 Gautier Write-only-address
2001-08-13 22:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
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