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| • Ports: | What’s a port? | |
| • Binary I/O: | Reading and writing bytes. | |
| • Encoding: | Characters as bytes. | |
| • Textual I/O: | Reading and writing characters. | |
| • Simple Output: | Simple syntactic sugar solution. | |
| • Buffering: | Controlling when data is written to ports. | |
| • Random Access: | Moving around a random access port. | |
| • Line/Delimited: | Read and write lines or delimited text. | |
| • Default Ports: | Defaults for input, output and errors. | |
| • Port Types: | Types of port and how to make them. | |
| • Venerable Port Interfaces: | Procedures from the last millenium. | |
| • Using Ports from C: | Nice interfaces for C. | |
| • I/O Extensions: | Implementing new port types in C. | |
| • Non-Blocking I/O: | How Guile deals with EWOULDBLOCK. | |
| • BOM Handling: | Handling of Unicode byte order marks. |