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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Reading variable-length records from a file
Date: 10 Aug 2001 14:04:52 -0500
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In article <9l19l4$45m$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net>, "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com> writes:
> What is the best method for reading variable-length records from a file, using Ada (generic Ada, or GNAT)?  I have some files, from
> a VMS system, that I want to read on a Win2K system.  The files have the VMS standard "implied carriage control", which means that
> each "record" (or line; it's a text file) has a two-byte count value, followed by "count" bytes (characters).

And a fill byte if needed to even the count.