From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bffcdbd805329ff8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 10:52:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9mo3p9$22t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Ada and Internet stuff Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:52:27 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:52:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12614 Date: 2001-08-31T17:52:27+00:00 List-Id: 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com