System and I/O Reference

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Introduction

1.1 - The libraries and their modules

2 - The Format Module

2.1 - Introduction

2.2 - Control strings

2.3 - The FORMAT module

format
format
format-to-string
format-to-string
print-message
print-message
print-message
print-message

3 - The Format-Out Module

3.1 - Introduction

3.2 - The FORMAT-OUT module

format-out
format-out

4 - The Printing Modules

4.1 - Introduction

4.2 - Print functions

4.3 - Pretty printing

4.4 - The PRINT module

print
*print-circle?*
*print-length*
*print-level*
print-object
*print-pretty*
print-to-string

4.5 - The PPRINT module

*default-line-length*
pprint-indent
pprint-logical-block
pprint-newline
pprint-tab
*print-miser-width*

5 - The Streams Module

5.1 - Introduction

5.2 - Discussing error conditions

5.3 - Goals of the module

5.4 - Concepts

5.4.1 - Streams, growing sequences, and object identity

5.5 - Stream classes

5.5.1 - Creating streams

5.5.1.1 - File streams
5.5.1.2 - Options when creating file streams
5.5.1.3 - Sequence streams

5.5.2 - Closing streams

5.5.3 - Locking streams

5.6 - Reading from and writing to streams

5.6.1 - Reading from streams
5.6.2 - Convenience functions for reading from streams
5.6.3 - Writing to streams
5.6.4 - Reading and writing by lines
5.6.5 - Querying streams
5.6.6 - Using file streams

5.7 - Using buffered streams

5.7.1 - Overview
5.7.2 - Useful types when using buffers

5.8 - Wrapper streams

5.8.1 - Wrapper streams and delegation

5.9 - Conditions

5.10 - Streams protocols

5.10.1 - Positionable stream protocol
5.10.2 - Wrapper stream protocol

5.11 - The STREAMS module

6 - The Standard-IO Module

6.1 - Introduction

6.2 - Handling standard input and output

6.3 - The STANDARD-IO module

*standard-input*
*standard-output*
*standard-error*

7 - The Date Module

7.1 - Introduction

7.2 - Representing dates and times

7.3 - Representing durations

7.4 - Performing operations on dates and durations

7.4.1 - Comparing dates
7.4.2 - Comparing durations
7.4.3 - Performing arithmetic operations
7.4.4 - Dealing with time-zones

7.5 - Extracting information from dates

7.6 - The DATE module

8 - The File-System Module

8.1 - Introduction

8.2 - Types specific to file system operations

8.3 - Manipulating files

8.4 - Manipulating directories

8.5 - Finding out file system information

8.6 - Finding out file information

8.7 - The FILE-SYSTEM module

<copy/rename-disposition>
create-directory
delete-directory
delete-file
do-directory
ensure-directories-exist
file-exists?
file-properties
file-property
file-property-setter
<file-system-error>
file-type
<file-type>
home-directory
<pathname>
rename-file
root-directories
temp-directory
working-directory
working-directory-setter

9 - The Operating-System Module

9.1 - Introduction

9.2 - Manipulating environment information

9.3 - Manipulating application information

9.4 - The OPERATING-SYSTEM module

application-arguments
application-filename
application-name
environment-variable
environment-variable-setter
exit-application
login-name
login-group
$machine-name
$os-name
$os-variant
$os-version
owner-name
owner-organization
$platform-name
run-application
tokenize-command-string

10 - The Network Library

10.1 - Overview

10.2 - Utilities

start-sockets

with-socket-thread

10.3 - Internet addresses

10.3.1 - Basic Internet address protocol

<internet-address>
host-name
host-address
numeric-host-address
all-addresses
aliases
$loopback-address
$local-host

10.3.2 - The <IPV6-ADDRESS> class

10.3.3 - The <NUMERIC-ADDRESS> class

<numeric-address>
network-order
host-order
10.3.3.1 - IPV4 addresses
<ipv4-numeric-address>
host-order
network-order
as
<ipv4-network-order-address>
<ipv4-host-order-address>

10.4 - Sockets

10.4.1 - The <ABSTRACT-SOCKET> class

<abstract-socket>
local-port
socket-descriptor
local-host

10.4.2 - The <SERVER-SOCKET> class

<server-socket>
accept
with-server-socket
start-server

10.4.3 - The <TCP-SERVER-SOCKET> class

<tcp-server-socket>
accept

10.4.4 - The <SOCKET> class

<socket>

10.4.5 - The <BUFFERED-SOCKET> class

<buffered-socket>

10.4.6 - The <TCP-SOCKET> class

<tcp-socket>
remote-port
remote-host

10.4.7 - The <UDP-SOCKET> class

<udp-socket>

10.4.8 - The <UDP-SERVER-SOCKET> class

<udp-server-socket>

10.5 - Socket conditions

10.5.1 - <socket-condition>

<socket-condition>

10.5.2 - <socket-error>

<socket-error>
10.5.2.1 - <internal-socket-error>
<internal-socket-error>

10.5.3 - <recoverable-socket-condition>

<recoverable-socket-condition>
10.5.3.1 - <network-not-responding>
<network-not-responding>
10.5.3.2 - <invalid-address>
<invalid-address>
10.5.3.3 - <host-not-found>
<host-not-found>
10.5.3.4 - <server-not-responding>
<server-not-responding>
10.5.3.5 - <host-unreachable>
<host-unreachable>
10.5.3.6 - <socket-closed>
<socket-closed>
10.5.3.7 - <connection-failed>
<connection-failed>
10.5.3.8 - <connection-closed>
<connection-closed>
10.5.3.9 - <address-in-use>
<address-in-use>
10.5.3.10 - <blocking-call-interrupted>
<blocking-call-interrupted>
10.5.3.11 - <out-of-resources>
<out-of-resources>

10.5.4 - <socket-accessor-error>

<socket-accessor-error>
10.5.4.1 - <win32-socket-error>
<win32-socket-error>

System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000