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From: "markp" <markwork66@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Sending Variable Length Messages with GNAT.Sockets
Date: 9 May 2005 03:11:52 -0700
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I am currently using GNAT.Sockets to send data via streams. A snippet
of my code is is as follows:

.
.
My_Stream_Access := GNAT.Sockets.Stream(Socket => Socket);
.
.
Msg_Types.Msg_Header_Type'Write(
   My_Stream_Access,
   Msg_Type);

This code works fine. It appears GNAT.Sockets works off a message type
in this manner.

My question is: What if the data type "Msg_Type" was a variable length
message? Is there a way to send only "x" bytes for Msg_Type, and not
the entire thing?

Thanks,

Mark