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   From: loufoque@googlemail.com   
      
   On 25 jan, 08:59, fmatthew5876  wrote:   
      
   > I'd really like to see a new IO library that uses printf like syntax   
   > along with generic binary read and write functions. There should still   
   > be an object oriented class hierarchy with virtual functions, so that   
   > you can have a generic stream which may be a file, memory buffer,   
   > network socket, ipc, etc.. We could even possibly have a standard   
   > version of select() or poll() to wait on multiple stream objects.   
      
   There has been proposals for a low-level IO library that allows   
   asynchronous communication, though this is mainly targeted at   
   networking.   
      
      
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