----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > Von: "Trond Myklebust" <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> What do you think? >> > > You don't a priori know the length of the underlying filehandle or its > structure. All you know is that you have n bytes of data, and it is > possible that the first 2 bytes represent the size 'n-2'. However it is > also possible that those 2 bytes are something else that just happens > to match the value 'n-2'. Yes. ;-\ Our mails have crossed, after hitting send I realized my fault. Thanks, //richard
