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netstring

Description

This egg provides porocedures for reading and writing so called netstrings.

Author

Moritz Heidkamp

Documentation

netstring-write str #!optional portprocedure

Writes str to port ((current-output-port) by default).

netstring-read #!optional portprocedure

Reads a netstring from port ((current-input-port) by default) and returns its interpretation.

string->netstring strprocedure

Converts str to a netstring.

netstring->string nsprocedure

Returns the interpretation of ns.

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