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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Text_IO from a stream
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:49:41 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> I would override 'Read and 'Write in order to make it
> platform-independent. (Stream_Element should be replaced by octets.)

How would that particular change help platform independence?