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6.14 Input and Output

• Ports:  What’s a port?
• Binary I/O:  Reading and writing bytes.
• Encoding:  Characters as bytes.
• Textual I/O:  Reading and writing characters.
• Simple Output:  Simple syntactic sugar solution.
• Buffering:  Controlling when data is written to ports.
• Random Access:  Moving around a random access port.
• Line/Delimited:  Read and write lines or delimited text.
• Default Ports:  Defaults for input, output and errors.
• Port Types:  Types of port and how to make them.
• Venerable Port Interfaces:  Procedures from the last millenium.
• Using Ports from C:  Nice interfaces for C.
• I/O Extensions:  Implementing new port types in C.
• Non-Blocking I/O:  How Guile deals with EWOULDBLOCK.
• BOM Handling:  Handling of Unicode byte order marks.