On Feb 14, 2011, at 09:32, John P. Hartmann wrote: > How about reading the documentation? I think you are assuming that > unix has records. OS records, that is. > Documentation for which stage? VAR? APPEND? TCPCLIENT?
> On 14 February 2011 17:29, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >> My (only) input is connected to a TCPCLIENT stage. >> >> 'callpipe var dataline | append *.input: | *.output:' >> >> ... the result is unpredictable: the amount of data output >> from the same input varies. Why? Is there a better way of >> doing this? >> I recognize that the packet boundaries in a TCP/IP data strean are unpredictable, but for my "amount" I was COUNTing characters, which should not vary. Would setting a LINGER or KEEPALIVE option help? Would it suffice to not sever the input to TCPCLIENT? Thanks, gil
