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On 02/04/2011 02:32 AM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
> when a copy command is issued, I assume that there is some indication 
> of how much data is going to follow.
>
>

No of course there isn't. How would we do that with a stream like STDIN? 
Read the code.

cheers

andrew