polling streams

[chaput@ils.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput)]

I'm using a the tcp-stream from the mcl library, and I'd like to display
the output I get whenever there is new output to get.  Is there any way to
know if there is any output to get off the stream so that I don't hang my
program when I read something?

thanks
cliff

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