Re: gnat: time-slicing

["Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>]

From: Jan Prazak <janp9@gmx.net>

>> When you don't specify a file parameter to Put_Line, it writes to
>> Current_Output which, if you haven't changed it, is Standard_Output.
>> Text_IO *always* writes to a file. Duh.
>
>If it's true, then the Linux console/terminal is a file. Duhuhuh. :)
>No, seriously, explain it a bit more. As far as I know, a terminal is a
>device in Linux, which is some kind of a file, maybe you mean this. When
>I run the program in konsole (KDE xterm), the output is on the screen,
>and that's logical, because I haven't specified a file in Put_Line.

Before arguing, please have a look at the Ada Reference Manual...

For the RM, the screen _is_ a file, named Standard_Output; and the keyboard is 
also a file, named Standard_Input. (Actually the RM does not specify what 
Standard_Output and Standard_Input stand for since this is OS dependent, it only 
says that there are these two files.)

You urgently need the RM. Go get it :-)