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From: Matthew Burnside
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:54

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pehanna@yahoo.com (Phil Hanna) wrote in message news:<3b438ab7.162930952@news.ipass.net>...
> Programming with sockets does not mean working at the byte level.
> That's not how text protocols like NNTP, POP, and SMTP work.  You can
> use telnet to manually interact with a server in full lines of ASCII
> text terminated with CRLF.  A software client is just one simple step
> above that.  After you have opened a socket to the server, you can get
> its input and output streams and wrap them in BufferedReader and
> PrintWriter, respectively, to allow you to use readLine() and
> println() for your interaction.

To the original poster:
This is exactly the combination I have used for the binary
downloader/decoder that I'm writing. It works like a charm. You will
need to read the RFC to get a handle on the protocol. Essentially, you
will send a one-line command and receive either a one-line response or
a multi-line response terminated by a period on a single line. You
will know which to expect based on the command you send.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have questions or problems.

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