Re: Default directory in Ada 2005

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

All common target systems for Ada have the concept of a default directory,
and that is built into the target system, so it would take a lot of work for
any Ada compiler (of ANY vintage, including Ada 83) to ignore the default
directory in file opens. The only new thing is that Ada has acknowledged the
existence of this common concept.

Surely, any failure to properly handle Open is a bug in a particular
implementation, not of the language. (Nothing has changed in the definition
of Open; the meaning of the default directory is target-specific and
implementation-defined in any case.) You need to contact the vendor of your
implementation, or at least tell us exactly what implementation you are
referring to, in order to get any useful help.

                              Randy.

"ME" <abcdefg@nonodock.net> wrote in message
news:13ge6d348ciln86@corp.supernews.com...
> This does not appear to work. Since open was Ada 95 was it rewritten to
use
> default directory ?
>
> "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message
> news:1191599479.895076.191170@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> > On Oct 4, 9:52 pm, "ME" <abcd...@nonodock.net> wrote:
> >> If the default directory is set then can I just omit the path in "Open"
> >> so that it will use it or is something else meant by default?
> >
> > If you mean that you've used Directories.Set_Directory to set the
> > default directory, then yes, I think the default directory is supposed
> > to be used for any external file names that aren't fully specified (A.
> > 16(48)).
> >
> >                           -- Adam
> >
> >
>
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