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From: layer@Franz.COM (Kevin Layer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: TCP i/o in Sun Lucid
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Date: 24 Jan 91 18:58:22 GMT
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Allegro CL has an implemention of this in the function
OPEN-NETWORK-STREAM:

  (defun open-network-stream (&key host port socket-file)
    "Open a stream to a port, which is a TCP/IP communication channel.  There
  are two types of ports supported, UNIX and INTERNET domain.  The domain is
  chosen based on the keyword arguments supplied:
  For internet domain:
   HOST is the string host name or an integer internet address.
   PORT is the string service name or a port number.
  For Unix domain:
   SOCKET-FILE is the string pathname of the socket."
  )

The source code for this is distributed with our emacs-lisp interface
(there was a recently release, posted to gnu.emacs.sources).  It uses
our underlying stream implementation, but it might be useful if Lucid
provides a similar substrate.

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