"Graham Harris" <ng@bmsgharr.globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:45dc5310$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Using Indy 10.0.16
That is a very old build. You should consider upgrading to the latest
10.1.6 snapshot.
> how do I determine the size of the input buffer?
That depends on the particular protocol that you are trying to
implement in the first place.
> As the buffer will be a stream of text. I could read in a loop all
the
> data, a byte at a time. But I would like to do something like:
There are only two reliable ways to send text over a socket in
general:
1) preceed the text data with an integer that specifies the length of
the text being sent. Read the length first, then you can read the
specified number of bytes/characters next.
2) append a unique terminator byte/character/string to the end of the
text, something that is guaranteed never to appear in the text, and
then keep reading until you find that terminator.
Gambit
