Re: Mixing text and binary data

From: Duane Rettig <duane@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:08:14 -0800

nicolas.edel@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I would like to read/write both text and binary data on sockets and
(*stdandard-input* *standard-output*). Are there idioms in Lisp to
mix text and binary ?

You already got two answers on this thread. Another is to use
"simple-streams", which is available in Allegro CL, as well as some of
the free lisps (CMUCL, at least). Documentation starts here:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/streams.htm

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