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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Will Ada-95 Programs Written in MS Windows Run in MacOS and Linux
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:07:31 +0000
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>
>> $ ./s
>> testing \n
>>
>> raised ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.NAME_ERROR : s.dat: No such file or directory
>>
>> and indeed s.dat does not exist.
>
> Drat.
>
> I forgot to add that you need to do (the equivalent of) "touch s.dat"
> before running the program (I thought it was quite long enough already
> without adding the Create/Open dance).

And now I look in the Ada95 AARM there's nothing that says what happens
if the external file to be Create'd already exists. I must have been
thinking of the Open/Create dance, or even Open-To-Append/Create.