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9.3 Simple Streams

Simple streams are an extensible streams protocol that avoids some problems with Gray streams.

Documentation about simple streams is available at:

http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/6.2/doc/streams.htm

The implementation should be considered Alpha-quality; the basic framework is there, but many classes are just stubs at the moment.

See SYS:CONTRIB;SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS;SIMPLE-STREAM-TEST.LISP for things that should work.

Known differences to the ACL behaviour: