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NEWS entries for the port changes, surprisingly few.

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@ -929,6 +929,37 @@ next read operation will work on the pushed back characters.
If unread-char is called multiple times, the unread characters will be
read again in last-in first-out order.
** the procedures uniform-array-read! and uniform-array-write! now
work on any kind of port, not just ports which are open on a file.
** now 'l' in a port mode requests line buffering.
** new procedure: ftruncate PORT [LENGTH]
Truncates PORT after LENGTH bytes, or at the current position if
LENGTH is omitted. Works on random-access file and string ports.
** new procedure: lseek PORT/FDES OFFSET WHENCE
The arguments are the same as for the old fseek procedure, but it
works on string ports as well as random-access file ports.
** the fseek procedure now works on string ports, since it has been
redefined using lseek.
** the setvbuf procedure now uses a default size if mode is _IOFBF and
size is not supplied.
** the newline procedure no longer flushes the port if it's not
line-buffered: previously it did if it was the current output port.
** open-pipe and close-pipe are no longer primitive procedures, but
an emulation can be obtained using `(use-modules (ice-9 popen))'.
** the freopen procedure has been removed.
** new procedure: drain-input PORT
Drains PORT's read buffers (including any pushed-back characters)
and returns the contents as a single string.
** New function: map-in-order PROC LIST1 LIST2 ...
Version of `map' which guarantees that the procedure is applied to the
lists in serial order.
@ -967,6 +998,13 @@ New functions.
* Changes to the scm_ interface
** The interfaces for using I/O ports and implementing port types
(ptobs) have changed significantly. The new interface is based on
shared access to buffers and a new set of ptob procedures.
** scm_strport_to_string: New function: creates a new string from
a string port's buffer.
** Plug in interface for random number generators
The variable `scm_the_rng' in random.c contains a value and three
function pointers which together define the current random number
@ -1046,6 +1084,7 @@ Return a sample from the exp(1) distribution.
*** Function: unsigned long scm_i_random (unsigned long M, scm_rstate *STATE)
Return a sample from the discrete uniform(0,M) distribution.
Changes in Guile 1.3 (released Monday, October 19, 1998):