Subject: Re: Byte offset From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1997/01/30 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3063634468493967@naggum.no> * Scott Sheffield | I never received an answer to my question about getting a byte offset | from lisp. I need to no if there is a lisp command that will give me a | byte offset of a point in a text file stream. I also need to no the best | way to get a byte count for a section of the text stream. Theres got to | be a lisp guru who knows this. Oh great lisp guru speak to me..... man, you make it hard to answer you. have you looked at `file-position'? does it fail to give a useful answer? #\Erik -- 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine -- a basic ingredient in quality software.