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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Eudora POP mail client and A/UX 2.0
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Date: 18 Mar 91 19:38:19 GMT
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dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
   When you close a MacTCP connection, you must do the following:
   - Close your side.
   - Read data until the other side closes.
   - Release the connection.
   Due to a missing "!", I was neglecting the read data step.

<"thud" sound of head hitting desk>

Well, that explains a long-standing weirdness.  Funny, I always assumed
that a TCPRelease would actually make the stream go away, whatever
state it was in.  Silly me.

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