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   Joe Monk to All   
   Re: serial ports galore   
   17 Jun 21 01:18:14   
   
   From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > The application needs to handle it. I'm not sure how   
   > it makes sense for a C library (with or without the aid   
   > of the OS) to handle the internal protocol details of   
   > random protocols. You wouldn't need fread() you would   
   > need some sort of complicated non-C90 function that   
   > retrieves tokenized data.   
      
   Which is why fopen, fread, etc are not suitable for URLs. That why we have the   
   TCPIP library of functions and use Connect() for things like this.   
      
   Joe   
      
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