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From: jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Strange behavior of MacTCP
Keywords: MacTCP
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Date: 20 Aug 90 20:55:41 GMT
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I have the following problem with MaacTCP concerning transfert of data between
a MacIIfx with an Ethernet board and a Unix machine (Silicon Graphics):

  I have a buffer of N characters which pointer I store in the wds in 
  combination with the length (N) but it is sent as a block of N-2 and 
  a block of 1 character (the last one).  The next to last character is lost.
  I am reading N characters on the Unix side but only N-2 are actually there
  (no garbage, no trailing zeros).

  The only way I have found to solve that is to specify a size of N+2 and 
  just my N characters are transmitted.

Has anybody witnessed this problem before and found a cure for it?

Thanks.  Jerome

Jerome Plun              // Tell me why is it so hard to say
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