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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/03/01
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Richard Kenner said

<<Not only that, but consider writing an "fsck" in Ada.  There the disk
is a single file, and many disks are larger than 2GB.>>

Somehow, methinks that someone writing fsck in Ada might possibly NOT
decide to use Direct_IO as the implementation vehicle :-)