Re: Terminating a task

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

"Craig Carey" <research@ijs.co.nz> wrote in message
news:5ra8hvkkabsvevc2r0abu4mp71dfochelr@4ax.com...
>
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> Ada 95 can't read data accurately from the console: (a) Text_IO has an
> undefined behaviour on what bounds lines. The Stream_IO package does not
> let the standard input be specified. GNAT extensions were not used (i.e.
> fread() in Interfaces.C_Streams).

What do you mean by
"Text_IO has an undefined behaviour on what bounds lines."?

The procedures Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line and Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line certainly
know what "bounds lines."

True, the Stream_IO package does not allow the standard input to be
specified,
but that's not the proper package to use for dealing with _text_ streams.

The package Ada.TextIO.Text_Streams allows one to obtain the stream object
corresponding to the standard input -- i.e.:

Standard_Input_Stream : Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams.Stream_Access =
   Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams.Stream (Ada.Text_IO.Standard_Input);