Re: gnat: time-slicing

[Jan Prazak <janp9@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 03:44:27 -0100, Grein, Christoph wrote:

> For the RM, the screen _is_ a file, named Standard_Output; and the
> keyboard is also a file, named Standard_Input. (Actually the RM does not
> specify what Standard_Output and Standard_Input stand for since this is
> OS dependent, it only says that there are these two files.)

I have downloaded "Ada distilled" (a nice tutorial) yesterday, and the
author says (in the section about Text_IO), that standard output is the
screen in most cases.

> You urgently need the RM. Go get it :-)

I have it already, but who wants to go through over 500 pages. Maybe I will
have a look, but for now I'm very busy with reading tutorials. The RM is
too detailed, so sometimes it's not easy to find an information there (it
takes time).