Re: Text_IO.End_Of_File Problem

[hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com (Hambut)]

"Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:<9tsbca$4g95n$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>...
> Hambut, the basic answer is: you cannot mix Ada.Sequential_IO and
> Ada.Text_IO! The format in which Sequential_IO writes data is
> implementation-dependent, and may not even vaguely correspond to anything
> that Text_IO can read back.

I appreciate this.  the reason I mixed the two was to get a small
self-contained program to demonstrate my problem.  The actual app uses
text_io to set the file up, and text_io to read the file.  However
doing this I managed to get an exception to occur where I didn't
expect one.  Hence the query.

> 
> I have two questions for you:
> 
> (1) WHY were you trying to write with Sequential_IO and then read with
> Text_IO?

See above.

> 
> (2) WHAT do you really want to do?
> 

What I really want to do is fairly trivial really (or at least should
be), and involves downloading an email, writing it into a file, and
then parsing the email to extract attachments etc.  Currently I'm
downloading the email and saving it into a temporary file, and then
later opening it to pull out the attachment.  Perhaps my real problem
is using text_io to write POP3-type output straight to a file (it adds
a load of superfluous line ends I guess), in which case Sequential_IO
looks more hopeful.

> I will help you with (2) if I can (and if you require).

I'm hoping I won't need help with this, but you're offer is much
appreciated.