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    Sending a banner using sockets

    Hi there,
    I have a banner.c that when I run it I choose a word and it transforms that word into a banner.
    I have managed to talk with other computers following beej.us guides but thing is those guides only get me connected to 'em and being able to send a phrase or a word.

    I'm trying to send a full banner now, what do you think I should be doing ?

    Thanks.

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    The only difference between sending 1 byte and sending a megabyte is a for loop.
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
    If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.

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    I understand what you're saying but I'm talking about different stuff.

    What I'm saying is I run :

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    ./banner ted
    And it outputs me a banner.
    I need to send the output, how can I do that ?

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    Like I said, can you do
    ./banner ted
    and just print the results on stdout?

    If you can do
    write(1,buff,strlen(buff));
    in some kind of loop, to make your banner appear on screen

    Then this is a cake-walk.
    write(sockfd,buff,strlen(buff));
    where sockfd is the socket you opened to the remote machine.
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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    Ah, okey I finally got it working
    Thanks!

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