putting output from print() into a string?

Is there some neat way of storing the printed representation of an 
object as a character string?  I can see how it could be done via 
disk using sink() and then scan(), but that's ugly.

Something like Lisp-Stat's "with-output-to-string" macro perhaps?

dump() ?

Uwe Ligges

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