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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> without overflowing some buffer than can never be the right size

Oddly enough, when newbies ask how to read input in Ada,
the general response here is to read lines into a fixed-
size buffer which too can never be the right size.