Re: file transfer with sockets

On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:42:23 -0700, Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] <mvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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You could load the entire contents of the file into one big byte array, but that wouldn't be too efficient, and would gobble up memory
for large files (hence the reading in chunks).

And of course would not even work for files too large to fit in the process's address space. :)
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