Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?

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

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> I want to read as much data as is available, and then process that before
> I wait for more. I thought I had solved that with Get_Immediate, but it
> turns out that Get_Immediate (or rather some underlying C routine)
> translates CR LF to a single LF when running in Windows, and I can't find
> any other way to check if input is available. Neither can I push back what
> I've read with Get_Immediate to read it again with Character'Read.
> 
> (I'm using Gnat 3.14p in Windows and 3.13p in Redhat.)

There are two forms of Get_Immediate: One blocking until data is available, the other not blocking 
and returning a boolean to indicate whether data is available.

There is also a look-ahead.