Once again, Jacque puts the kibosh on our "it's a bug!" session by injecting facts! <sigh> You can't have any fun around here anymore. ;-)
Bob On Feb 3, 2013, at 12:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/3/13 1:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Can you think of a circumstance in which you've already specified to >> read until EOF, and the command executes flawlessly just as you've asked >> it to, yet you still need to be notified that it reached EOF? > > The "read from file" command is a subset of the generic "read" command which > also includes reading from sockets and drivers (and by extension, reading > from servers.) They all have the same syntax, and in the MC dictionary > there's only one listing for them all. Because they are the same command > internally, they all share the same values in the result. > > In the case of sockets and drivers it is possible to read without error but > not receive all the data due to communication issues. In that case you'd want > to know if the read had paused or had really finished. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
