<nikodemus@random-state.net> wrote:
+---------------
| Andy Cristina <acristin@cs.uno.edu> wrote:
| > I'd really like to be able to write out 32 bit sized numbers to a file, in
| > binary.  While reading through CL:TL2, it seems that the only binary IO is
| > writing a single byte and reading a single byte.  And while this isn't bad
| 
| Try looking in the hyperspec instead... OPEN accepts :element-type, which
| does what you want.
+---------------

Additionally, look at the HyperSpec entries for READ-SEQUENCE and
WRITE-SEQUENCE, especially the notes at the bottom:

    An efficient implementation is more likely to exist for the case
    where the sequence is a vector with the same element type as the
    stream.


-Rob

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