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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux
 Without Some Tweaking.
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:20:46 -0700
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On 12/08/2013 01:00 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>
>> However, files in "Mac format" (CR for line terminator) don't work
>> with Text_IO under Linux.
>
> That's a very old 'Mac format', of course. Unix-style nowadays.

Yes, certainly, but I encountered it in the last couple of years. It was a file 
output by Excel, IIRC, and the user had specified "Mac format" by accident. To 
the Get_Line function it looked like a single, 5M-character string.

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