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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: procedure Create(file : in out File_Type;
 from : in Stream_Access); ?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:29:09 +0000 (UTC)
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* Stephen Leake wrote:
> Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> writes:
>> Knows anybody out there a way to create a File_Type (for Ada.Text_IO) from a
>> Ada.Streams.Root_Type derivate?
>
> I don't see how this would be possible; a stream may not be a file (it
> may be a socket or just memory, for example).

All my programs does read data sequentially from a file/stream. So I use as
file as a stream. That's why, I'd like to handle a Stream with the common
Text_IO functions.

> Why do you want to do this? Perhaps there is another way ...

Sure. I can rewrite 'Read and 'Write.