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6.12 Input and Output ¶

• Ports
• Binary I/O
• Encoding
• Textual I/O
• Simple Textual Output
• Buffering
• Random Access
• Line Oriented and Delimited Text
• Default Ports for Input, Output and Errors
• Types of Port
• Venerable Port Interfaces
• Using Ports from C
• Non-Blocking I/O
• Handling of Unicode Byte Order Marks