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From: "markp" <markwork66@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Sending Variable Length Messages with GNAT.Sockets
Date: 9 May 2005 04:19:16 -0700
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Thank you for your quick reply. Our target platforms are not Ada, so we
chose to use the write. Could you tell me some place I could look to
research how to write my own stream input/output routines? I could pass
a byte count in with the message to be sent, but the stream calls seem
to only take a type, not a length. For example, in our application
code, we have a data type that can hold up an array of 512 entries, but
we might only want to send the first 32, for example. We have built
into the message header how many bytes there are, but Ada would know
nothing about that. We are used to the traditional "address, byte
count" wat of dealing with sockets

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Mark.