Ok, cool. FWIW, the current documentation for Network says: "For really fast I/O, it might be worth looking at the hGetBuf and hPutBuf family of functions in System.IO." But this looked pretty low-level to me, and I figured it might be outdated. I also know Bulat Ziganshin had put together a nice-looking Streams library (http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/streams/) based on John Goerzen's previous HVIO work, but I wasn't sure if the ByteString stuff matches the speed and encapsulates all of the functionality of that anyway. Or can/should they be used together somehow? Chad
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import Network import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B
hostName = "myComputer" portID = PortNumber 54321
theData :: IO B.ByteString theData = connectTo hostName portID >>= B.hGetContents _______________________________________________
Looks like the obvious, right way to me.
-- Don