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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: SEQUENTIA_IO and stdin/stdout (Standard_Input, Standard_Output)
Date: 14 Oct 2003 22:32:25 -0600
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In article <mailman.85.1066173102.25614.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:11, Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> > Are you suggesting the trick of finding out the name of Standard_Output
>> > (say) and then open a sequential file with that name? Sounds clever, but
>> > unfortunately it doesn't work.
>> 
>> Why not ?   What error do you get ?
> 
> I think the ARM does not guarantee it.

Which of the three steps is not guaranteed ?

	Finding the value of File_Type

	Finding the name of the corresponding file

	Opening the file

If it is the last, I would expect a failure to open would signal an exception.

> With GNAT no output is produced.
> I suppose another compiler could work as desired.