Am 07.02.2010 um 14:57 schrieb Robin Fairbairns:
> Lars Hellström <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, fontinst maintains a pool of output streams and allocates
>> streams from this pool. See fibasics.dtx.
>
> there's the newfile package, too, for latex users.
I think this only provides an interface for the existing stream primitives, but no new allocator. I would have liked to contribute a short piece of code for the allocator, but again Joseph was much too fast for me :-)