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Addition to Remy,

If you are designing such transfer / recieve you have to specify a good 
protocol to use. This means at minimum you have some kind of structure for 
your data package which includes a checksum. Error correction coding would 
also not be out of the question.

John

"qyte" <gyte@vivodinet.gr> wrote in message 
news:42279c95@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
>> "qyte" <gyte@vivodinet.gr> wrote in message
>> news:4227924e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>>
>>>Is There a way to find out if a port is idle?
>>
>>
>> Plese elaborate.
>>
>>
>>>i have built a program with 4 clients and a server and i
>>>want to syncronize them by checking if the port that
>>>they use is idle at a moment so that they can send data.
>>
>>
>> Why do you need to test for idleness before sending data?
>>
>>
>> Gambit
>>
>>
>
> The Problem is that when i call SendBuf i want to know for sure if the 
> data will be sent. apart from that the first socket deals with file 
> sending through a timer every one millisecond (sends 1kb). I want to add 
> an abort and even if i close the timer there is still some data on the 
> winsock that will be sent in the future and of course when the receiver 
> takes them and calls fwrite then an access violation accurrs. So i want to 
> know when all the data will have gone and then to send a code that will 
> signal the abort process.
>
> As For the first problem i know that i can call sendbuf like that:
>
> while(sendbuf(a,packet)<0);
>
> just to be certain that the data was sent. but there is no guarentee that 
> the whole packet will be sent.
>
> i am using TServerSocket and TClientSocket.
>
> i was thinking of using the ClientSocket->LookupState!=isIdle property but 
> i will have to check all 4 sockets. and i don't know if it will work.