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<div><h1>NetFile -- the class of all net files</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div>This class is experimental. Net files are intended to supplant output files eventually. Whereas a file is a stream of bytes, or in some non-unix operating systems, a sequence of lines each of which is a sequence of bytes, a net file is a sequence of lines, each of which is a net. Each output line is assembled by joining nets one by one.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : f = newNetFile()
o1 = <<a netfile>>
o1 : NetFile</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : f << "aabbcc" << endl
o2 = <<a netfile>>
o2 : NetFile</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : f << "aa" << "bb"^1 << "cc"^-1 << endl
o3 = <<a netfile>>
o3 : NetFile</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : f << "aa" << "bb"^1 << "cc"^-1 << endl
o4 = <<a netfile>>
o4 : NetFile</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i5 : getNetFile f
bb bb
o5 = (aabbcc, aa , aa )
cc cc
o5 : Sequence</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i6 : peek oo
+------+ +------+
+------+ | bb | | bb |
o6 = (|aabbcc|, |aa |, |aa |)
+------+ | cc| | cc|
+------+ +------+</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i7 : class \ ooo
o7 = (Net, Net, Net)
o7 : Sequence</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Methods that use an object of class NetFile :</h2>
<ul><li>Manipulator NetFile</li>
<li>NetFile << Manipulator</li>
<li>NetFile << Net</li>
<li>NetFile << String</li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2>
<p>The object <a href="___Net__File.html" title="the class of all net files">NetFile</a> is <span>a <a href="___Type.html">type</a></span>, with ancestor class <a href="___Thing.html" title="the class of all things">Thing</a>.</p>
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