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- Implement & test read-sequence, write-sequence for (un)signed-8 vectors

- Eliminate consing in sc-read-chars-ef

- Make reader work with simple-streams

- external format handling: load aliases, load formats, etc.

- Handle writing beyond the end of a mapped-simple-stream properly

- handle device-file-position for mapped streams

- Test write-octets / read-octets handling of encapsulated streams

- handle ansi-streams in write-octets / read-octets?

- Implement socket-base-simple-stream and chunked transfer encoding.

- Test string streams.

- Make sure the code examples for stream encapsulation from Franz work

- Test every single output function

- Test character position (slot charpos)

- make pathname work for simple-streams

- test :abort argument to close (should revert to original file)