Re: Ada and Internet stuff

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9mo3p9$22t$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>8-bits no matter what the internal storage unit size is. Streams are going
>to get used primarily for two things: Data in files and data along
>communication links. The bulk of that is going to be in 8-bit bytes, given
>the common trend in hardware. So I doubt there is any expressed or implied

Well, I'd actually throw out the "data along communication links" one. Data put
in streams is just *not* portable, unless extreme efforts are put forth to make
it so (eg: GLADE).

Without a lot of effort, streams are really only useful for dealing with data
that is going to be read and written from Ada code on the same type of platform
compiled with the same compiler.

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