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Re: stream-access background information
- To: vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com
- Subject: Re: stream-access background information
- From: Masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 22 Mar 88 10:15 PST
- Cc: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: "AITG::VANROGGEN" <vanroggen%aitg.decnet@hudson.dec.com>'s message of 22 Mar 88 12:44:00 EDT
Of the ones in your list, DRIBBLE-STREAM, FILE-STREAM, TERMINAL-STREAM are the
ones that seem questionable. We've managed to evicerate DRIBBLE; we've had
trouble in the past defining what a "file" is (one that can be coerced to a
pathname?), and TERMINAL-STREAM is true of *TERMINAL-IO* sometimes? What is a
"terminal"?
On LISTEN2, how do you define "end-of-file"?
On OPEN-STREAM-P, how do you define "open"?