From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: strings and characters Date: 2000/03/17 Message-ID: <3162300918453715@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 598829580 References: <3162184639382952@naggum.no> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 953314136 10837 195.0.192.66 (17 Mar 2000 17:28:56 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 2000 17:28:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Tim Bradshaw | Is there a useful, fast, check that that (write-sequence x y) will write | (length x) bytes on y if all is well for LispWorks / Liquid ...? yes. make the buffer and the stream have type (unsigned-byte 8), and avoid the character abstraction which you obviously can't trust, anyway. #:Erik