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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!agate!usenet
  2. From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.archives
  4. Subject: [comp.lang.scheme] Announcing SIOD v2.9
  5. Followup-To: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
  6. Date: 2 Sep 1992 00:19:30 GMT
  7. Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
  8. Lines: 25
  9. Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
  10. Distribution: world
  11. Message-ID: <1811aiINNqkm@agate.berkeley.edu>
  12. References: <2528@mitech.com>
  13. NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
  14. X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.lisp
  15. X-Original-Date: 31 Aug 92 09:33:58 GMT
  16.  
  17. Archive-name: auto/comp.lang.scheme/Announcing-SIOD-v2-9
  18.  
  19. Announcing SIOD version 2.9
  20.  
  21. New features: a set of data-file I/O primitives:
  22.               fopen, fclose, getc,putc, fputs, fread, fwrite, fseek, ftell
  23.               fast-read, fast-print
  24.  
  25.               a simple trace package (optional C procedure to link in)
  26.  
  27. Available for anonymous ftp from nexus.yorku.ca
  28. in the implementations section: pub/scheme/imp.
  29. Also available from world.std.com under src/lisp.
  30.  
  31. ---------
  32.  
  33. The fast-read and fast-print primitives allow control over when and how
  34. "symbols" are optimized into index references. This simple feature, along
  35. with the ability to to ftell/fseek on a file, can be used to implement
  36. various lisp "database" capabilities.
  37.  
  38. ---------
  39.  
  40. -gjc
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