I/O Channel for textual representations of Mocs
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s MOC recommendation, version 1.1. Writing a Moc to a MocChan (using
astWrite) will, if the Moc is suitable, generate a textual description of that Moc, and
reading from a MocChan will create a new Moc from its textual description. See the Moc
class for further information.
Normally, when you use a MocChan, you should provide "
source"
and "
sink"
functions which connect it to an external data store by reading and writing the
resulting text. These functions should perform any conversions needed between
external character encodings and the internal ASCII encoding. If no such functions
are supplied, a Channel will read from standard input and write to standard
output.
Alternatively, a MocChan can be told to read or write from specific text files using the SinkFile and SourceFile attributes, in which case no sink or source function need be supplied.
MocFormat: Whether to use JSON or string format
MocLineLen: Controls output buffer length