Re: [Gaim-devel] Oscar FT update

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

William T. Mahan spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:14:37AM -0800, Christian Hammond wrote:
> >
> > Basically, I need to be able to read in x amount of bytes, then say,
> > "Okay, you get 'y' many bytes and stick it in the file, and then call
> > me back when you're done and we'll continue this after I rest a bit."
>=20
> You're right, there's no easy way to do that using the current API.  I
> was hoping that no sane protocol would break up a file and send
> headers in the middle, since it's not necessary over TCP.  Apparently
> that was a bad assumption. :-(

=2E.. But what if you want to interleave FT and other info on the same
stream?  I can see this as being a very reasonable thing to do.

Ethan

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