Filesystem Question

[lone_REBEL]

I want to ask if dealing with binary files is different in win98 and winXP because a program that I wrote in VB6 under win98 environment does not work under WinXP. It is about reading a binary file, diving it into pieces and then sending the pieces via Winsock. It does read the file but it does not make its pieces as it should (using left(), and mid()). Its like this:

'read the binary file and save data in "data" string variable
dim partoffile as string
partoffile=left(data,8192) 'clipping the first 8 KBs of data
data=mid(data,8193)
winsock.senddata partoffile

Now either winsock does not send the data, or it creates an error or there's a problem with diving the data, because the data "boxes" never reach at the receiving end successfully. Whats wrong?

[Doogle]

Now either winsock does not send the data, or it creates an error or there's a problem with diving the data, because the data "boxes" never reach at the receiving end successfully. Whats wrong?

I suspect the problem is at the receiving end. Can you post the DataArrival event code of the receiver please.

[lone_REBEL]

Its this:

Private Function SaveFile(byref newdata as string)
     Static data as string
     data=data & newdata
End Function

Private Function sk_DataArrival(Byref BytesTotal as Long)
     dim data as string
     sk.getdata data
     SaveFile data
     sk.senddata "Send Next Fragment"
End Function

Now the fact is that I coded send a message every time when the file fragment is being sent. And the message is displayed only once (for the start of the file) and never again. I also sent a message every time the data is received and this also displays the message only once! (only one fragment is received). I'm totally lost as to where is the error.
Note that it works absolutely fine under windows 98 and 2000. Only XP has some strange problem with it.

[Doogle]

The first thing that springs to mind is how does the receiver know when everything has been sent?