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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Ada way to read/write to character file
Date: 05 Jan 2002 13:01:20 +0100
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Hi,

I'm wondering if there is an Ada way (i.e. standard package) to read
and write to a character mode (sequential) file like the COM?:
resp. /dev/ttyS? interface. Ada.Text_IO has no read/write file mode
and with GNAT I wasn't able to connect two File_Type variables to the
same physical file at the same time. 

I want to communicate with a device hanging on the RS232 port. I have
to write to the device and read the answers. I could of course do it
like open, write, close, open read, close, open,... But I think this
is not very elegant. I just finished doing it with the Win32
resp. POSIX API functions, but I'm still wondering if it could be done
with some standard Ada package.