From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8180bee0588d30e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-17 06:41:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!63.218.45.11.MISMATCH!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!diablo.voicenet.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <55cccaab.0310140444.4ac20d7f@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: SEQUENTIA_IO and stdin/stdout (Standard_Input, Standard_Output) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <_jSjb.4$PZ1.3@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:41:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.245.186 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1066398074 141.154.245.186 (Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:41:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:41:14 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1074 Date: 2003-10-17T13:41:14+00:00 List-Id: "Marius Amado Alves" wrote in message news:mailman.95.1066291541.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > As I indicated before, I suspect Ada has a weak point here. Namely > binding the standard channels exclusively to Text_IO. Surely the > standard channel concept is less dependent of file format than that. I know of no language that has a portable method for accessing the standard channels (standard input, standard output, and standard error) in any fashion other than as a text file.