🚀 go-pugleaf

Indeed,

In future I will strive to carefully check all doco etc. before availing myself of your polite, patient and professional 
help :-)

Q.



"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message news:4579052c$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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> "Quentin David Jones" <quentin.jones@romteck.com.spamprotect> wrote in
> message news:4578fa92$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
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>> I thought the service name was just a descriptive title - d'oh.
>
> Then I guess you didn't read the documention for the Service property yet:
>
>
>    Service
>    Specifies the name of the service for which the socket connection is
> used.
>
>    __property System::AnsiString Service = {read=FService,
> write=SetService};
>
>    Description
>    Use Service to identify the use of the connection. Windows provides a
> number of standard service names such as ftp, http, finger, and time.
> Servers can specify additional services and their associated ports in a
> SERVICES file. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation for
> Windows sockets.
>
>    Certain port numbers are reserved for specific values of service. Thus,
> Service provides a more meaningful way to specify the server Port to use for
> the socket connection. For server sockets, using Service rather than Port
> ensures that the server will listen for TCP/IP requests on the appropriate
> port.
>
>    Note: Trying to change Service when the connection is open will raise an
> ESocketError exception.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>