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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> So your message to the Ada world is that if Florist
> can't give you access to that O/S feature, then you
> should be using C?  That's a progressive Ada answer. ;-)

It's impossible to correct willful ignorance. You claimed you had to 
deal with 10 different versions of "POSIX". My answer is that there is 
exactly one POSIX. If you're after things not part of POSIX, that has 
nothing to do with POSIX.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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