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Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> Are you saying that some implementations of TEXT_IO.GET_LINE do not
> handle OS terminals properly ?
> 
> I thought GET_LINE was the way around OS-dependencies in this area.

Get_Line is fine, if you want to read lines.  But if you want to read 
characters with Get_Immediate, you get to see the control characters.

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                                           Robert I. Eachus

100% Ada, no bugs--the only way to create software.