Re: Chars and Bytes in the RM

[RT Happe <rthappe@web.de>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Martin Gasbichler wrote:

> RT> By the way, the implementation of R-S!/P in scsh/rw.scm (0.6.3 beta) looks
> RT> suspect to me.  It basically calls READ-BLOCK with COUNT :=

> Hmm, I think I mixed up non-blocking with non-buffering.

The important issue is that the buffer size doesn't determine whether the
port can satisfy the request from the buffer.  The port-index or
fill-pointer of the buffer does.

rthappe