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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes?
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:32:45 -0600
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Ted Dennison wrote in message
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>Actually, I do think so. It is quite possible to create "text files"
>in an editor that don't have a line terminator on the last line. I've
>had problems in the past with Ada Text_IO ignoring such lines, causing
>an important line in a configuration file to be ignored. I can
>understand the arcania behind the rule, and tell myself to make sure I
>put a line terminator on the last line whenever I'm editing. However,
>users who aren't Ada developers just don't understand, and (probably
>rightly) consider it a bug.

That's not a problem with the design of Text_IO, but rather with the
implementation of Text_IO. That certainly doesn't happen in Janus/Ada's
Text_IO.

            Randy.