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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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> It sure could, but you end up with many more system calls, and it is not
> async.  The real advantage to a call like TransmitFile() is that you can
> send an entire file (or a range of a file) with a single system call, and
> you can do it async.  This means that you can more efficiently implement
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> things like FTP servers, Web servers, pop servers, etc.

And the measurements which show this are to be found ... where? I'm not 
convinced. You've got to pay the cost for this somewhere. 
"complexity is conserved" -- D. Jensen

ron