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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Design help
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:07:08 +0000
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I think you should look at Ada.Streams and Ada.Streams.Stream_IO. OK,
this could do most of the work for you, but that's what higher-level
languages & their libraries are for ... not sure how your professor
would react.