<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Simple Streams - SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="SBCL 1.0.31 User Manual"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Extensible-Streams.html#Extensible-Streams" title="Extensible Streams"> <link rel="prev" href="Gray-Streams.html#Gray-Streams" title="Gray Streams"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This manual is part of the SBCL software system. See the `README' file for more information. This manual is largely derived from the manual for the CMUCL system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and later released into the public domain. This manual is in the public domain and is provided with absolutely no warranty. See the `COPYING' and `CREDITS' files for more information. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Simple-Streams"></a> <p> Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Gray-Streams.html#Gray-Streams">Gray Streams</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Extensible-Streams.html#Extensible-Streams">Extensible Streams</a> <hr> </div> <!-- node-name, next, previous, up --> <h3 class="section">10.3 Simple Streams</h3> <p>Simple streams are an extensible streams protocol that avoids some problems with Gray streams. <p>Documentation about simple streams is available at: <p><a href="http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/streams.htm">http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/streams.htm</a> <p>The implementation should be considered Alpha-quality; the basic framework is there, but many classes are just stubs at the moment. <p>See <samp><span class="file">SYS:CONTRIB;SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS;SIMPLE-STREAM-TEST.LISP</span></samp> for things that should work. <p>Known differences to the ACL behaviour: <ul> <li><code>open</code> not return a simple-stream by default. This can be adjusted; see default-open-class in the file cl.lisp <li><code>write-vector</code> is unimplemented. </ul> </body></html>