FileHandles and FileStreams

[Brian T Rice]

After some consideration and trying to update the manual, I added a couple
of more methods to FileHandles. The programmer's manual was also updated
to reflect these protocol changes, in section 3.8.

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Brian T Rice wrote:

> I've updated the FileHandle interface to support the same basic protocol
> as a Stream, and tests fine by itself. It also has an extended protocol
> which lets it write directly into Strings or ByteArrays or ordinary
> Arrays, so memory usage can be controlled. I also added some default
> conversion (as: methods) to those traits to make it more sensible to use
> any of them without having to convert manually.
>
> I also updated FileStream to use it, and fixed a bug or two, but there are
> still some remaining. I'd like to get this into working shape really soon,
> but I'm very distracted at the moment with some other issues, so if
> someone could try it out and find some fixes, I'd appreciate it (I suppose
> I can pay back with some more features elsewhere or something ;).

-- 
Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/