> > Input could then come from e.g. memory, TCP, UDP (hehe, multicast an AbiWord
> > document?), disk file, whatever...
> >
> > The same for output.
>
> Hence the file stream (completely XP code) to whom file operation are
> handled by the file object (platform code).
One potential use of streams would be to handle [de]compression (via zlib
or bzip2) transparently. I'm already using an interface to do something
like this in UT_XML, but it really shouldn't be UT_XML-specific.
Frank
Francis James Franklin
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Deep in the human unconsciousness is a pervasive need for a logical
universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step
beyond logic.
--- from `The Sayings of Muad'dib' by the Princess Irulan
