Re: implementation question about writing and reading from files

[tmoran@acm.org]

  I'd suggest Ada.Streams.Stream_IO

> read a chunk of any size from any part of a file and write it into memory
> and pass back the pointer.
    procedure Read (File : in     File_Type;
                    Item :    out Stream_Element_Array;
                    Last :    out Stream_Element_Offset;
                    From : in     Positive_Count);

> write a chunk of any size into any part of any file.
  assuming "any file" does not include, for instance, printer output,
    procedure Write(File : in     File_Type;
                    Item : in     Stream_Element_Array;
                    From : in     Positive_Count);