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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How to check for characters in input stream?
Date: 15 Sep 1994 09:42:10 -0400
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Date: 1994-09-15T09:42:10-04:00
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"is there a way to do this [get a character at a time] in Ada?"

there is in fact an explicit feature in 9X for doing this within text io,
but the best answer for Ada 83 is that of course there is a way, call the
appropriate getchar routine or whatever in C. Remember that pragma Interface
is part of Ada!