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"Gene Buckle" <geneb@grumble.deltasoft.com> wrote in message 
news:4845851e@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Thanks Dennis.  I read and re-read the docs and still couldn't make it 
> work.

What EXACTLY are you having trouble with?  You haven't answered my last 
message yet.

> I threw it out and started using the "TTCPClient" control that
> came with RAD Studio.

Ouch!  That is a bad component to use, in my opinion.  It was Borland's 
attempt at a cross-platform socket component, but it was implemented very 
poorly, requiring a lot of extra manual work on your part.  I strongly 
suggest staying away from it.  Even Borland's TClientSocket is better to use 
than TTcpClient.

> Strangely enough (ok, not strangely, "typically"), there's no
> documentation on it at all in the help files.

TTcpClient is a CLX component, not a VCL component.  Did you look in the CLX 
documentation?

> I'd like to be able to set a timeout value for the
> TTCPClient->Receiveln() method

TTcpClient does not expose any timeouts.

> but so far have had no luck in locating such a thing.

Because it doesn't exist in TTcpClient.  You would have to call the socket 
API's setsockopt() function directly instead, setting the SO_RCVTIMEO value.

> For the record, TTcpClient worked as expected - set the
> host, the port and call connect.  *bing* it works.

So does TIdTCPClient when used properly.  Again, please answer my last 
message regarding that.


Gambit