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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:56:33 +0000
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John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> writes:

> BTW - in case anyone's interested, the MIDI format for the synth I'm
> interested in is defined at:
>
> http://www.kawaius-tsd.com/OM/K_SYNTH/K1WAVE~1.PDF

You're going to have fun using unchecked conversion (whether by
Unchecked_Conversion or overlay), considering that the data dumps are
indefinite length (EOX-terminated). Won't you just have to read 4 octets
at a time until EOX? (rather like an HTTP request).

I think I agree with Dmitry, "reading the octet stream or else what is
natural for the device or the protocol at hand, and then constructing
the necessary Ada objects on the fly".