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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Streams - copying stdin to stdout
Date: 1999/02/09
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Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
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"Chris Miller" <chrismil@ozemail.com.au> writes:

> To test the operation of Streams I wrote the following sample
> program that copies standard input to standard output :
>
<snip code>
>     while not Text_IO.End_Of_File loop
<snip more code>

> The problem is that the input file has 5 bytes, which are the characters
> "test" plus the line feed added by vi, however the output file is only
> 4 bytes.

I suspect you want Streams_IO.End_Of_File. Text_IO adds semantics
about line and page endings, which will get in your way.

-- Stephe