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Michael Moeller <mic2@t-online.de> writes:

> In addition there is no EOF, which brings me to the next question:
>
> How can I prevent Ada from attaching '0x0a' to the end of the file?

The run-time will raise End_Error if you try to read beyond the physical
end of the file (the last byte).

If you use anything other than Text_IO, then the only bytes that are
written are bytes that you specify directly; when you stop writing and
Close the file, that's it.