Hello, Before I knew it is possible to emulate read-line by instantiating a flexi-stream I have written a stream-read-char and stream-read-line implementations of my own. Actually, the code was shamelessly borrowed from SBCL. However, they are not thoroughly tested or profiled. Please, take a look, darcs patches are attached. With best regards, Victor Anyakin http://vityok.org.ua http://znaete.org.ua