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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,48376c7ba742841e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-28 11:30:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news-out.worldnet.att.net.MISMATCH!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wannabe h4x0r Subject: Re: Ada Characters? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: User-Agent: Pan/0.11.1 (Unix) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Georg Bauhaus" Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.245.48.122 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1014924639 12.245.48.122 (Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:30:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:30:39 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:30:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20597 Date: 2002-02-28T19:30:39+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:16:42 -0500, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Wannabe h4x0r wrote: > > : > : TEXT : string(1..200); > > how do you fill this? > > - georg Usually from a text file, like this ... with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; Length : Natural; Open(File, IN_FILE, TEXT(1..LENGTH)); This usually works fine. All I have to do is use a loop to however many lines my terminal will support in order to page the output on screen. Chris