Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 22-Mar-00, you wrote:
m> If I would like to read a 'open-ed connections input without
m> closing it, how would I do it? It seems to me the only way to
m> read from it is to close it. Is this so, or am I just plain
m> silly? :)
You can read from a (TCP) port that has not been closed by the
other side but you cannot know how many bytes the other side sent
you --- unless it gives you this information.
The function READ-IO allows you to read all the data arrived to
the port so far.
maxchars: 1024
buffer: make string! maxchars
chars: read-io port buffer maxchars
You get in CHARS the actual number of bytes read. If the buffer is
not empty, READ-IO appends the data to it.
Regards,
Gabriele.
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