Class: UnboundedExternalStream

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • redefind basic

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Stream
      |
      +--PeekableStream
         |
         +--PositionableStream
            |
            +--WriteStream
               |
               +--ReadWriteStream
                  |
                  +--ExternalStream
                     |
                     +--UnboundedExternalStream

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Streams-External

Version:

rev: 1.8 date: 1996-04-25 17:02:20

user: cg

file: UnboundedExternalStream.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

This class provides common protocol for all external streams which are
unbound in size (i.e. have no end). Examples of these are PipeStream,
Sockets, TTYStreams etc.

Instance protocol:

 position

report an error that this stream has no concept of position

 position: anInteger

report an error that this stream has no concept of position

 size

report an error that this stream has no concept of size