[plt-scheme] seek/tell for ports...

Is it possible to do that with a non-file port?
As in,
(define-values (i o) (make-pipe))
(display "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" o)
(file-position i)
(file-position i 10)

?
If it does, why is it called 'file-position'?
If it doesn't, why not?



-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Barzilay [mailto:eli at barzilay.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:48 AM
To: riandouglas at iprimus.com.au
Cc: PLT-Scheme
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] seek/tell for ports...

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On Dec 17, riandouglas at iprimus.com.au wrote:
> Is there a method to seek to a position in a file, and get the
> current position in a file, as in the C fseek/ftell functions.

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  > (with-output-to-file "x" (lambda () (display "abcdefghijklmnop")))
  > (define x (open-input-file "x"))
  > (file-position x)
  0
  > (file-position x 10)
  > (list (read-char x) (read-char x))
  (#\k #\l)
  > (file-position x)
  12

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