From: heatwole@erols.com (Kevin D. Heatwole)
Subject: Re: simple problem?
Date: 1996/05/10
Date: 1996-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <heatwole-1005961844310001@news7.erols.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.96May10162546@spectre.mitre.org
In article <EACHUS.96May10162546@spectre.mitre.org>,
eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) wrote:
> Ada 83 does not prohibit opening a Text_IO file for appending. In
>fact it provides a mechanism, the Form string, for requesting append
>mode. Many Ada 83 compilers support this. Unfortunately, the
>appropriate Form string is implementation defined, so check your
>vendor supplied appendix F.
I might add that any Ada 83 compiler that supports the Posix Ada standard
(IEEE 1003.5-1992) uses the same Form string syntax to specify appending. I
think most compilers support this standard (on platforms where it makes
sense).
Kevin Heatwole
OC Systems, Inc.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-09 0:00 simple problem? Frank Cheung
1996-05-10 0:00 ` John Herro
1996-05-10 0:00 ` John English
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-13 0:00 ` John English
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole [this message]
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