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"Dennis Cote" <denniscote@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:47e28ff7$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> is there a way to get Indy 10 to read directly into the existing char 
> buffer?

Indy does not support direct memory buffers anymore, by design.  One thing 
you can do, though, is derive a new class from TCustomMemoryStream that uses 
the char* buffer as its underlying memory block.  You could then use 
ReadStream() to receive the data directly into the buffer.  For example:

    class TBufferStream : public TCustomMemoryStream
    {
    public:
        __fastcall TBufferStream(void *Buffer, int Length)
            : TCustomMemoryStream()
        {
            SetPointer(Buffer, Length);
        }

        int __fastcall Write(void *Buffer, int Count)
        {
            Count = min(Count, Size-Position);
            if( Count > 0 )
            {
                memcpy(((LPBYTE)Memory) + Position, Buffer, Count);
                Seek(Count, soFromCurrent);
                return Count;
            }
            return 0;
        }
    };


    char* Buffer;
    int Length;
    ...
    TBufferStream *strm = new TBufferStream(Buffer, Length);
    IOHandler->ReadStream(strm, Length);
    delete strm;


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