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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: variable lenght strings
Date: 29 Oct 2004 04:11:41 -0500
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In article <MrNoSpam-4944E7.18485729102004@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Dale Stanbrough <MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au> writes:
> Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> 
>> Note that implementations have to have implicit page terminators at the end
>> of the file (putting in explicit ones would be awful, and there are ACATS
>> tests which check that the one at the end of the file actually exists), so
>> supporting implicit line terminators isn't that much extra work.
> 
> I'm surprised that we didn't get another Text_IO package in Ada0Y
> which would get rid of all the crufty old stuff and create a much
> faster package. Ada.Chars_IO or similar.

Whether something different would be faster or not depends on the
underlying OS file system.  The record boundaries come "for free"
in RMS.