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Subject: Re: Reading and writing a big file in Ada (GNAT) on Windows XP
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>The problem is that the input file has more than 10 million lines of
>text in it. The program works perfectly, but takes about 5 hours to
>run. The Cygwin version of wc can count the lines in the input file in
  Is your problem in Text_IO or in the scanning & "modifications"
code?  If your program does no scanning and makes no modifications how
long does it take?