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Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:

> Fortunately, the software has been tested this week and is known to
> run with sufficient success in gnat 2013 in a MAC environment for me
> to say it is reasonable to assume without testing that it will also
> run in a modern Windows environment using a compiler of that same
> vintage.

That's going a bit far.

The code builds OK, but you can't decrypt on Mac OS X (or Linux, or any
Unix-based system) data that has been encrypted on Windows.

This isn't a version-of-GNAT problem; it's caused by (what the consensus
seems to agree is) a limitation of GNAT's Text_IO.