From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ae711c481a7059 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-07 11:06:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Kees de LezenneCoulander Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes? Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:05:21 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1036695965 82194 137.194.161.2 (7 Nov 2002 19:06:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30552 Date: 2002-11-07T14:05:21-05:00 Robert A Duff wrote: >Does anybody actually use those counts? >I've never written code that does. Sure. We have technical calculation programs that read input from fairly large and complicated ASCII files. I find it quite a nice touch that I can quote page, line and column number when an error occurs. Kees de Lezenne Coulander -- = C.M. de Lezenne Coulander Aircraft Development and Systems Engineering B.V. Hoofddorp, The Netherlands =