John Thingstad <john.thingstad@chello.no> wrote:
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|  Q <qalex1@gmail.com> wrote:
| > Is there a way to force an EOF character to be at the end of a
| > stream?  I have an open stream that doesn't have an EOF, so when I try
| > to read-line it just hangs there.
| 
| yes. (force-output) also see (force-input)
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What is this "FORCE-INPUT" of which you speak?  ;-}  ;-}
It's not in the CLHS.

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| Here is a simple game that demonstates use.
| http://home.chello.no/~jthing/games/roulette.html
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Uh... That demonstrates CLEAR-INPUT, not FORCE-INPUT.
And CLEAR-INPUT only clears the input buffer, it doesn't
force an EOF on the stream, which is what the OP was asking.


-Rob

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