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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Multiple instantiation of Ada.Direct_IO
Date: 1998/01/28
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In article <886003669.3982.0.nnrp-02.9e98a25e@news.demon.co.uk>, "Blake
Weston" <blake@dedlock.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I have a bit of a problem. Basically I am using Ada.Direct_IO to read /
>write to a file. The problem being I wish to write records of differing
>types to the file, without closing the file and re-opening it.
>
>Ada 95 will not even let me open the same file as two different file_type
>variables as this creates a Use Exception error.
>
>Can anybody help?

It sounds like you want to perform heterogeneous I/O.  Direct_IO is for
homogeneous I/O.  Try Ada.Stream_I/O instead.

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