* File handling
@ 1997-10-11 0:00 Hannu �rn
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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From: Hannu �rn @ 1997-10-11 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Is the package Ada.Text_IO only way to handle files?
Are there procedures like Turbo Pascal's BlockRead and
BlockWrite in Ada 95?
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* Re: File handling
1997-10-11 0:00 File handling Hannu �rn
@ 1997-10-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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From: Kenneth W. Sodemann @ 1997-10-13 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hannu �rn wrote in message <343F4BE1.F669CC82@norssi.helsinki.fi>...
>Is the package Ada.Text_IO only way to handle files?
No. Check out sequential_io and direct_io in section A.8 of the Ada95 LRM.
>Are there procedures like Turbo Pascal's BlockRead and
>BlockWrite in Ada 95?
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1997-10-11 0:00 File handling Hannu �rn
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
@ 1997-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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From: Matthew Heaney @ 1997-10-15 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <343F4BE1.F669CC82@norssi.helsinki.fi>, horn@norssi.helsinki.fi
wrote:
>Is the package Ada.Text_IO only way to handle files?
>Are there procedures like Turbo Pascal's BlockRead and
>BlockWrite in Ada 95?
I haven't done any Turbo Pascal programming in a while, so I'm not sure
what you mean by BlockRead and BlockWrite. But there are other I/O
pacakges in Ada:
Ada.Sequential_IO
Ada.Direct_IO
Ada.Streams.Stream_IO
One of the strengths of Ada is that, by a very deliberate design choice,
I/O wasn't built into the language (they didn't want to marry the language
to I/O technology that would become obsolete in a few years; see the Ada 83
Rationale for the gory details). Yes, Ada comes with predefined I/O
packages (the ones listed above), but if these don't meet your needs then
you can just roll your own I/O package that does what you exactly what you
want.
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