Jacque- Sunday, February 3, 2013, 12:40:43 PM, you wrote:
> 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. I was about to post the same, but then Bob would be on my case instead <g>, so I'm glad you beat me to it. I'd be happier if the read command had been written to return the number of characters read, in which case 0 or -1 would be an error, but we're stuck with what we've got. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ 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