"======================================================================
|
|   ReadWriteStream Method Definitions
|
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"
|     Change Log
| ============================================================================
| Author       Date       Change 
| sbyrne     20 May 90	  Fixed to accomodate changes in WriteStream.
|
| sbyrne     25 Apr 89	  created.
|
"

WriteStream subclass: #ReadWriteStream
	    instanceVariableNames: ''
	    classVariableNames: ''
	    poolDictionaries: ''
	    category: nil.

ReadWriteStream comment: 
'I am the class of streams that may be read and written from simultaneously.
In some sense, I am the best of both ReadStream and WriteStream.' !


!ReadWriteStream class methodsFor: 'instance creation'!

on: aCollection
    | stream |
    stream _ (super on: aCollection) access: 3.
    stream useWholeStream.
    ^stream
!!



!ReadWriteStream methodsFor: 'private'!

useWholeStream
    "Makes sure that the contents message to this object returns the
     whole contents, not just that which has been written so far."
    endPtr _ collection size
!!