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In article <403avg$3tr@data.interserv.net>,
William Rini <billman@centcon.com> wrote:
>Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>
>>I know that I could very easily write a dialog with "yes" and "no"
>>buttons and then do whatever I please based upon which button was
>>pressed.  Maybe when you press YES it sends the data right away, but
>>when you press NO it waits and dribbles the data back over time.
>
>Well considering the fact that it would have to dial up through a
>modem, I think it's a pretty good bet you would notice if the "no"
>button transmitted information.

I don't think that's such a good bet.

No information is going to get transmitted until you connect, which
does *not* occur at the instant after one clicks "Yes."  It happens
later in the process.

If a compressed file gets dribbled across the modem during "normal
operations" of MS Network, how are you to tell that it's not your
system configuration files?  Or your Quicken .QIF files?

Since they basically control things at both ends of the connection,
there's essentially no way to tell without using something like an
RS-232 sniffer, or disassembling the code.
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