From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d7ec12dd7db366 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-28 22:02:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: How to rename a file? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 05:02:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1001739729 24.248.45.203 (Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:02:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:02:09 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13507 Date: 2001-09-29T05:02:09+00:00 List-Id: I've used both methods. I don't find thin bindings to be a waste of time, mainly because it keeps me from having to define constants, structures, function and procedure prototypes. Creating these definitions can be tricky. Using the thin bindings _usually_ the prototypes are right, it's just a matter of setting up the arguments correctly. IMHO SteveD "David Botton" wrote in message news:mailman.1001648485.22108.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > On Win32 if you wish to be cross compiler (this also demonstrates why thin > bindings are mostly a waste of time for Ada): > [snip]