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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Ada.Text_IO and strings. (wants EOL character)
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In article <8336eb21.0310140439.393f2e8@posting.google.com>, bleakcabal@gdnmail.net (Bleakcabal) writes:

> It would have been great if Ada strings read the end of line character
> and Put took care of them so the lines were automagicly sliced like C
> strings.

That would certainly prevent your programs from working in environments
where there is no end of line character, such as a sequential RMS file
on VMS.