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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Heterogeneous file I/O
Date: 1995/04/19
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Date: 1995-04-19T00:00:00+00:00
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It is not true that this problem is approached in the same way in Ada 83
and Ada 95. T.E.D.'s suggestion is reasonable for Ada 83, but in Ada 95,
the package Ada.Streams.Stream_IO, in conjunction with the stream
attributes will give you EXACTLY what you are looking for.