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<<
Are you saying that some implementations of TEXT_IO.GET_LINE do not
handle OS terminals properly ?

I thought GET_LINE was the way around OS-dependencies in this area.
>>
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I find this fascinating. You can have an X-conventioned text file in a Y =
system, where X and Y are operating systems (with distinct end of line =
conventions). If you compile your Ada program to the Y target, it will =
not read the X file properly. Amongs other unwarranted effects. Thit is =
why I adopt an 1-N conversion approach. Say 8-bit characters. I use =
Latin_1.NEL for end of line in the main application (the "1" side), and =
provide (simple) converters to/from the N conventions.