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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Binary versus text and compiler versions,
 was: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:08:40 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-12-10, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> But if I was writing this sort of code, I wouldn't worry about line endings 
> at all, and simply encrypt the file as binary data, using Stream_IO to read 
> it in and out.
>

Thank you. That's one of a number of things I don't understand about this.

A serious encryption tool is going to treat the input as a opaque stream of
bytes not as text.

I don't encrypt pure text, but I _do_ encrypt full directory trees which
may have a mixture of text and binary files within them.

I don't understand how someone who claims to have invented something new
cannot realise this.

And to the OP: while I can certainly understand the desire to remain
with Ada 95, what I don't understand is why you insist on using such a
specific version from a range of long obsolete compiler versions.

Can you explain your reasoning ?

Simon.

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