[Asterisk-Dev] [OT] [Very OT] socket connection from perl to visual basic

[Chris Wade]

I know this is so far off topic that it may not even get answered, but 
I'm having real trouble with one little VB application that I cannot 
seem to debug.

I have a Windows application written in VB that uses the IP*Works! 
library from devSoft, Inc. to send/receive data.  Sending what -- 
according to ethereal -- is the exact same byte sequence (for the data 
portion of the segment) from another Windows VB application succeeds, 
but sending this same byte sequence from a simple perl script on FC2_64 
causes the Windows VB application to die with a "Run-time error '6': 
Overflow".  I have determined that I can send these applications an 
arbitrarily large file (up to 4MB) and nothing goes wrong until I call 
close on the socket.

The 'tech-support' for the two Windows VB applications suggest that I'm 
not sending a proper EOF character, but as I said, I'm duplicating the 
byte sequences between the Windows 'client' and the linux 'client' so 
I'm not sure what is going on.

Any help would be appreciated.  Anybody wanting to response, off-list 
might be better to keep the OT clutter down -- either way.

Thanks,
Chris

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Christopher L. Wade, CCNA, CCDA, CQS-CIPTES, CQS-CWLSS