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On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Paul Rony wrote:

> I'm trying to follow the Appendix C in order to write my own client for
> Windows NT.  I'm using C++, so I'm in full control of every byte sent and
> received.  My problem is that the documentation does not clearly define all
> bytes in and out.

Yes it's true, you will need to reverse engineer the perl code.
 
> For example, the Data Exchange section mentions that all data must be
> prepended with the length of the string.  Is this length a 16-bit or 32-bit
> number?  Why is this length needed when the XCP protocol already includes a
> Content-Length header on the first line?

This is most likely a legasy issue from the earlier API.
The number is an unsigned short.

 
> Paul Rony
> Merchantware 
> 


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Dont worry Marge.
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