Larry Kilgallen wrote in message
<8qGdDEJ$BoYu@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
>In article
<20021108010337.395c1a90.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu>, Bj�rn
Persson <bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> writes:
>
>> I don't think Text_IO's design is a problem in itself. It can be
>> quite useful when working with text files. The problem is that the
>> standard input and output streams are defined to be text files. The
>> programmer should be allowed to decide whether Text_IO or
>> Sequential_IO is most appropriate.
>
>On VMS you would just open a Sequential_IO file for output saying the
>name is SYS$OUTPUT.  Isn't the same thing available on other operating
>systmes ?

Not that I know of. Janus/Ada provides names for standard input and
output as part of the file management in the Ada runtime. (They're
"Stdin:" and "Stdout:" on Windows, and "/dev/stdin" and "/dev/stdout" on
Unix. Those names are never passed to the operating system.) But, of
course using those names is not portable to other Ada compilers.

             Randy.