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From: Fraser Wilson <blancolioni@blancolioni.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada and Hardware
Date: 10 May 2001 16:58:03 -0700
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"Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:

> "Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
> news:JLCK6.91$j65.11856@www.newsranger.com...
> > In article <3AFACEC7.C2E67357@icn.siemens.de>, Alfred Hilscher says...
> > >
> > >"You can use the CreateFile function to open a disk drive or a partition
> > ..
> > >\\.\A: Obtains a handle to drive A on the user's computer.
> > >\\.\C: Obtains a handle to drive C on the user's computer."
> >
> > Interesting. One has to wonder if this would work with the standard Ada IO
> > operations (eg: Ada.Streams.Stream_IO)...
> >
> 
> I just had to know to. It looks like it does not work.

Is it possible that the documentation assumes that back slashes are
escaped?  Though I can't imagine what "\A" means in that case.

Fraser.