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21.2.36 finish-output, force-output, clear-output Function

Syntax:
finish-output &optional output-stream    nil

force-output &optional output-stream    nil

clear-output &optional output-stream    nil

Arguments and Values:
output-stream - an output stream designator. The default is standard output.

Description:
finish-output, force-output, and clear-output exercise control over the internal handling of buffered stream output.

finish-output attempts to ensure that any buffered output sent to output-stream has reached its destination, and then returns.

force-output initiates the emptying of any internal buffers but does not wait for completion or acknowledgment to return.

clear-output attempts to abort any outstanding output operation in progress in order to allow as little output as possible to continue to the destination.

If any of these operations does not make sense for output-stream, then it does nothing. The precise actions of these functions are implementation-dependent.

Examples:
;; Implementation A
 (progn (princ "am i seen?") (clear-output))
  NIL

;; Implementation B (progn (princ "am i seen?") (clear-output)) am i seen? NIL

Affected By:
*standard-output*

Exceptional Situations:
Should signal an error of type type-error if output-stream is not a stream designator.

See Also:
clear-input

Allegro CL Implementation Details:
None.

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