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Ok, thank you. I was hoping to be able to read and write bit-vectors because they are printed and read in a compact form, but that is of course just convenience.
In any case I think its time to dive back into the hyperspec!

Ok, but READ-BYTE returns an integer, is there a way to read int a bit vector of a specified length? or barring that, is there a way to convert from an integer (byte) to a bit vector?

Hi, I've been redoing all of my introductory CS assignments in LISP, and have arrived at Huffman compression. It seems to me that the most obvious way to deal with sequences of bits is to put them in a bit vector. This works nicely until I want to read or write to files. I have not been able to figu...