Telnet: Grabbing Bytes Previously Written During Next Read?

[pbd22]

Hi.

I am building a custom telnet interface and my problem is that I
want to read the user input along with the previously written stream.

Right now I am logging the user.

I have

Login: Bill

Login is written by:

buffer = ASCII.GetBytes( "Login: ");
_clientStream.W rite(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

Bill is entered by the user.

At the next return, I want to read:

"Login: Bill".

This is how I know its a Login read
and not a Password: read.

I am reading input with the following loop:

Code:
while (true)
{

_bytesRead = 0;
try
{
//blocks until a client sends a message
_bytesRead = _clientStream.R ead(message,
0,4096); //message

}
catch
{
//a socket error has occured
break;
}

if (_bytesRead == 0)
{
break;
}

statusMessage += ASCII.GetString (message, 0,
_bytesRead);
But, my problem is that I get:

"Bill".

when the user submits his string.

How do I get both the written "Login: " and
the read "Bill" on the same read?

Please let me know if i need to provide more information,
otherwsie, thanks a lot for your response!

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:01:31 -0800, pbd22 <du*****@gmail. comwrote:

Thanks Pete.

I am getting there thanks to your help.

Glad it's working out. You're welcome.

I have some nick-knacks that are, it seems,
not that trivial.

1) how do I highlight a line?
2) how do I change background color?
3) how do I change font color?
4) how do I clear the screen (aka. DOS "cls");

These are all new questions, and deserve an all-new thread.

Hint: when you repost those questions, you should be clear about how you
are displaying the text. There's a huge difference between doing those
kinds of things in a console window and doing them in a normal Forms
application window. For the former, see the Console class (it has
properties for setting font foreground and background, and a method for
clearing). For the latter, you can use a RichTextBox as a quick-and-dirty
implementation, or you can handle all of the drawing yoursself (more
complicated, but gives you more control and in the context of something
like this where the text is constantly changing, generally will provide
better visual quality and performance).

It may be you can get started with the above information. If you need
more help, start a new thread with specific questions.

Pete

[pbd22]

OK, good point. I'll start another thread.

Thanks a ton Pete for your help!

Peter

[christery]

4) how do I clear the screen (aka. DOS "cls");

Aha, another one missing chr$(12)... in this case its some <esc>[2J or
something... who knows, who cares
what do I know... anyone seen chr$(12)
//CY