PokeS questions

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Its actually not just one application sending the data, its several. They send a mixture of ascii and unicode depending on the individual application. Right now three of them send unicode and the rest ascii. So I needed to be able to handle both at the input to my application. But thats OK, our own company programmers have come up with a solution with .Net and C++ that allows us to do this and the reason they have arrived at the .Net and C++ solution is because a PureBasic solution can't be certified for this program application because the PureBasic methods/procedures used in PureBasic are not fully documented like, or to the point, the .Net and C++ API is. But thats OK, this wasn't my area anyway as i'm not a programmer. I was trying to come up with a suitable temporary solution for some testing on my end while the programmers were working on the certifiable solution. I did come up with a solution in PureBasic but can't really use it now.

Here's the deal; A few years ago the company I work for employed a contract programming company to provide certain specialized applications for support of a very specialized contract program we had at the time. This contract program ended and was not ours any longer until recently when we were approached again to restart the program under which the original contract program was running. The original programming company we contracted with to help us support this has since been bought out and absorbed by a larger company in Europe that produces games. This company in Europe has offered to take up the original contract and support us because they still employ the original programmers we originally contracted with. Unfortunately, because of some of the technology involved it would mean an export of certain methods contained in the technology, the law will not allow us to export this technology and the company in Europe will not supply the programmers for on-site work here in the U.S as they will only do the work in their own labs facilities in Europe. But were OK because we have and own the original C++ code which is fully (and wonderfully) documented and our own internal programmers have been able to re-produce the needed applications. So the program will come back on line and more "illegal, illicit, detrimental, and adverse" networks dealing with identity theft and ruining the lives of thousands every day will be shut down in the future.