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5.11 The STREAMS module

discard-output

Open generic function

Summary

Discards output to an output stream.

Signature

discard-output output-stream => ()

Arguments

output-stream
An instance of <stream>.

Values

None.

Library

io

Module

streams

Description

Attempts to abort any pending output for output-stream.

A default method on <stream> is defined, so that applications can call this function on any sort of stream. The default method does nothing.

See also

discard-input, page 66


System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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