Valli <ervalli@chellasoft.com> wrote:
> I want to send ascii data over the tcp socket in VB.NET.
> When the data reaches the destination, the special characters in the
> messages are recived as '?'. I meant the special characters which are not
> keyborad characters.
> Example chr(250), chr(254).
>
> Is there any way to send these kind of special characters through sockets?
> Is any examples available?

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> Valli <ervalli@chellasoft.com> wrote:
>> I want to send ascii data over the tcp socket in VB.NET.
>> When the data reaches the destination, the special characters in the
>> messages are recived as '?'. I meant the special characters which are
>> not
>> keyborad characters.
>> Example chr(250), chr(254).
>>
>> Is there any way to send these kind of special characters through
>> sockets?
>> Is any examples available?
>
> The first thing to know is that they're *not* ASCII characters. ASCII
> only goes up to 127.
>
> Now, we'll need to know a bit more information:
>
> 1) Do you actually have data as text that you want to send, or do you
> just want to send the byte 250, then the byte 254?
> 2) What's on the other end of the socket?
>
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Valli <ervalli@chellasoft.com> wrote:
> I want to send a text data which are delimited using the characters 250 &=
=20
> 254.

> eg, AAAA=FE3223=FE=FA=FE
> Ths source process is written on VB.NET & the destination process is writ=
ten=20
> on VB6.