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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Win32 File Handles and Ada
Date: 1998/05/31
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Srini asks

<<I am looking for a way to map Win32 File handles - created by CreatePipe
for instance into Ada Text_Io.File_Type (or some other such construct
that is close).

Can anyone suggest a way for gnat (3.10p1)?
>>


GNAT contains EXACTLY the feature you need (assuming that Win32 file handles
are treated the same as C stream handles). See the GNAT documentation which
has a seection called Operations on C Streams. If this is not exactly what
you want, it should be trivial to modify the Ada.Text_IO.C_Streams package
to
do what you want.

It is a constant amazement to me that people do not make the effort to at
least breeze through the documentation to know what is there. 

I really encourage GNAT users, both those using the supported
commercial version, and those using the public version to take the
time to read the documentation, there is all sorts of interesting stuff
available there.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies