base64-encode-stream

Arguments: instream outstream

This operator was added in an update released around February 3, 2006. You must have that update to use this operator. See sys:update-allegro for information on updating Allegro CL.

base64-encode-stream reads bytes from instream and writes the base64 encoding of those bytes to outstream (as characters). Outstream lines will be at most wrap-at (which defaults to 72) characters in length. If wrap-at is nil, no wrapping will occur.

Notes: instream must be a stream capable of being read in an octet-oriented manner (i.e, it must be a stream for which read-byte will succeed). In particular, instream cannot be a string stream.

See Base64 Support in miscellaneous.htm for information on Base64 and Base64 support in Allegro CL.

See also: base64-decode-stream documentation.

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