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In article <1991Apr21.061943.28184@comp.vuw.ac.nz,
Ray.Nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson) writes:
: In article <EIVERSON.91Apr19200202@aigyptos.nmsu.edu
: eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes:
:    Is there some way that I could just open up a stream, write
:    things to it, and then read from it?  In other words, how can I read
:    from buffers in Quintus Prolog?  Any help would be appreciated.
: I wrote an interface to Unix pipe(2) using SICStus' foreign
: functions.  You could do it in Quintus too, though there may be a
: better way.

The Quintus Prolog library includes library(popen).  One of the features
of Quintus Prolog for a long time has been that users can define their
own types of streams.  library(popen) and library(charsio) are built on
top of that facility.  In QP3.0 this is improved and enhanced.
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