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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: random rant on random files
- Message-ID: <2393@mitech.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:53:28 GMT
- References: <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
- Lines: 24
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- In article <9208130624.1.11214@cup.portal.com>, vanMeule@cup.portal.COM writes:
- > I feel a little upset at Scheme for lack of direct support in
- > most Schemes for random files. These are essential for ...
- > ... core image tiny enough to fit on
- > Apple IIe's with 64K of memory-- ...
- >
- > Any comments that might help me towards my desire ...
-
- Do you really want to program an Apple IIe? Maybe, just maybe, you could
- get SIOD to fit in that with enough space left over for something
- interesting.
-
- But seriously, SIOD version 2.8 has fopen,fclose,getc,putc, and puts
- as lisp subrs that have semantics like the ones in C.
-
- You should be able to add fread,fwrite,fseek, and ftell without
- too much effort.
-
- Then, if you are going to be storing lisp objects in random files,
- you probably also want to be using FAST-PRINT and FAST-READ and
- not read/print or getc and putc, if what you want to do is
- database-like things.
-
- -gjc
-