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6.14 Input and Output

• Ports:  The idea of the port abstraction.
• Reading:  Procedures for reading from a port.
• Writing:  Procedures for writing to a port.
• Closing:  Procedures to close a port.
• Random Access:  Moving around a random access port.
• Line/Delimited:  Read and write lines or delimited text.
• Block Reading and Writing:  Reading and writing blocks of text.
• Default Ports:  Defaults for input, output and errors.
• Port Types:  Types of port and how to make them.
• R6RS I/O Ports:  The R6RS port API.
• I/O Extensions:  Using and extending ports in C.
• BOM Handling:  Handling of Unicode byte order marks.