From 62e63ba927fd98bd9ffa1acd6677ddc5bc7a7b3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20Grabm=C3=BCller?= Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:39:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document new procedures open-input-string open-output-string get-output-string --- NEWS | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cc6190050..0a7b8eac8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -401,6 +401,21 @@ Set/remove an advisory shared or exclusive lock on `file'. Set or get the hostname of the machine the current process is running on. +** New function: open-input-string string + +Return an input string port which delivers the characters from +`string'. This procedure, together with `open-input-string' and +`get-output-string' implements SRFI-6. + +** New function: open-output-string + +Return an output string port which collects all data written to it. +The data can then be retrieved by `get-output-string'. + +** New function: get-output-string + +Return the contents of an output string port. + ** Deprecated: close-all-ports-except. This was intended for closing ports in a child process after a fork, but it has the undesirable side effect of flushing buffers. port-for-each is more flexible.