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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Sockets question...
To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 16:48:09 -0600 (CST)
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> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> > > 	Basically, the server opens up a binary file and sends the data
> > > to the client.  The client is connecting to the server no problem, but I'm
> > > don't seem to be able to send >79 bytes across the socket
> > 
> > What happens?  Does it hang?  Is data lost?  It should work fine.
> 
> 	At 1024, data seems to be lost.  I send 1023 bytes across, and
> receive 4...send 1023, receive 907...I send across 100 packets, receive
> 2...
> 
> 	As soon as I go to 512 or 80 byte writes, I can pound at it 
> repeatedly and get the complete image across every time, no errors.

Are you checking the return value from write() to make sure it actually
thinks that N bytes were _written_?

... JG