This package is currently hosted on SourceForge [http://sf.net].
Its homepage is http://memchan.sourceforge.net/
This package is part of the [ActiveTcl] Batteries Included distribution.

It provides several new [channel] types whose instances store
the transfered information in memory and do not go to the OS at all.

'''Channel types'''
   * '''memchan''' Read and write a memory buffer via a channel.
   * '''fifo''' A fifo buffer presented as a channel
   * '''fifo2''' Creates a pair of channels with a fifo connecting them
   * '''null''' Like the unix null device, discards everything and returns eof on read.
   * '''zero''' Like the unix zero device. Discards all writes and reads return all zeros.
   * '''random''' Like the unix random device. Writing seeds an [ISAAC] pseudo-random number generator. Reading returns random bytes from the generator.

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 What: memchan
 Where: http://memchan.sourceforge.net/ >
        http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/memchan/
 Description: A new channel type for Tcl 8's channel system.  Memory channels
        conform to the same interface as files and sockets, but the data
        is stored in memory rather than in files.  They are good for
        long dynamic strings and passing large quantities of data.
        Supports Window and Unix.  See the web page for pointers to the
        source and binary downloads.
        Currently at version 2.2.1
 Updated: 03-Dec-2004
 Contact: mailto:andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net (Andreas Kupries)
          mailto:patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net (Pat Thoyts)

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[LES] Would someone care to show me how to '''read''' whatever has been written to one such channel?
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