So I updated Squeak Xtreams to synchronize with Martin's latest changes in public store... Tests are now green, and there is no lingering process :) If you update, you might have to reinitialize XTEncoder and its subclasses (may be force Encoders := nil manually) - I don't trust MC too much with this regard... The manual step might be necessary because I switched to Symbol rather than String for specifyinh an encoding. I did not deviate from VW version, apart: - changing the #timeout:server:client: comment - changing FileWriteStream comment: isPositionable <Boolean> false when the file is open in append mode todo: SocketRead/WriteStream would be nice, streaming on directory contents too - I did not do it, because a simple test like #isDirectory is all but obvious using FileDirectory :( The InterpretedStream (for reading writing binary data) shouldn't be that hard. I'm making a pause tonight. Nicolas