le-anchor'> &para;</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>This is a convenience procedure for use with an event loop, which will
start a read watch on &rsquo;port&rsquo; for a block of data, such as a binary
record, of size &rsquo;size&rsquo;.  It calls &rsquo;await&rsquo; while waiting for input and
will return a pair, normally comprising as its car a bytevector of
length &rsquo;size&rsquo; containing the data, and as its cdr the number of bytes
received (which will be the same as &rsquo;size&rsquo; unless an end-of-file
