From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Subject: Re: Portable way to read/write from a binary file?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 22:00:58 PDT
Date: 1994-09-15T22:00:58-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <122506@cup.portal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 357u2t$ho8@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
>In article <355rv4$eg8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Robert Dewar, dewar@cs.nyu.edu writes:
>>sequential_io instantiated for a byte or character type may work, but is
>>not guaranteed, and may well be gruseomely slow.
>>
>>best get is just to use pragma interface and use the appropriate unix
>>routines directly, whjy not>
>
>Because I wanted a portable solution that wasn't tied to a particular
>operating system. It may be that there are comparable routines on _all_
>operating systems, but it still (potentially) leaves you with code to change
>when porting.
>
>Dale
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>Dale Stanbrough, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, dale@rmit.edu.au
>GNU Ada 94 (GNAT) => the best $0 you'll ever spend.
>Available for DOS, Linux, OS/2, Sun Sparc, Sun Solaris, ...
>Coming to a GNU supported platform near you soon...
Or maybe the code will eventually be used in an embedded environment that has
NO operating system of any kind, just a small Ada Runtime customized
to the hardware environment.
R. Tim Coslet
Usenet: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
technology, n. domesticated natural phenomena
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-09-16 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-14 1:40 Portable way to read/write from a binary file? Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-14 3:51 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-16 1:47 ` Lee_Robert_Willis
1994-09-14 22:39 ` Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-15 17:08 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-16 5:00 ` R_Tim_Coslet [this message]
1994-09-19 2:59 ` Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-19 17:46 ` Bob Duff
1994-09-20 22:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
1994-09-15 22:59 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
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