<socket>

Open abstract free instantiable class

Superclasses: <abstract-socket>, <external-stream>

The class of general client sockets. All client sockets are streams.

Keywords:

direction:

Specifies the direction of the stream. It must be one of #"input", #"output", and "#input-output". This keyword is an inherited streams class keyword. See the Streams library documentation in the System and I/O library reference for a full description.

element-type:

An instance of <class>. Useful values are <byte-character> and <byte>. This keyword is an inherited streams class keyword. See the Streams library documentation in the System and I/O library reference for a full description.

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System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000