[ On Wed, March 13, 1996 at 14:57:35 (-0500), David Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How to translate this stdio code to netbsd?
>
> > > And it occurs to me that it might be worth designing a stdio interface which
> > > "reads" n bytes by returning a pointer and advancing the read pointer by n,
> > > ASSUMING that there are n bytes available.  One possible approach would be
> > > to have stdio refuse to refill the buffer until you call back to release
> > > the pointer, or you could just take your chances if you're foolish enough to
> > > call read again while you're still interested in the previous data.
> > 
> > It has already been done, IMO.  Take a look at sfio from Vo & Korn @ ATT.
> > 
> > 	ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/attgifts/sfio.shar
> 
> I don't know if this was ever released, but you might also want to look
> at the Alloc Stream Interface.  It is described in the March'95 issue of
> IEEE Computer, if I remember correctly.
> 
> Also look at ftp://ftp.eecg.toronto.edu/pub/software/msio*.tar.Z

It's moved:  ftp://ftp.eecg.toronto.edu/pub/software/hurri/msio2.02.tar.Z

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