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Message: [QUOTE="Mike Wahler, post: 2529942"] Who's to say that an input stream with a 'guaranteed' limit of 'record size', did not get corrupted by some outside influence, rendering the 'guarantee' spurious? I've actually had to deal with this issue in the real world (receiving data over an RS232 line, subject to ocassional 'noise'). My program was not able to make *any* assumptions about the expected data stream. 'Knowing what I was doing', I knew that such 'guarantee' was impossible to implement. 'Knowing what I was doing' meant that it was my program's responsibility to deal with 'dirty' data in a safe manner (e.g. discarding it, or perhaps re-acquiring it). -Mike [/QUOTE]