Hey there AM,

What were your intentions for terminating the I/O? You can terminate on a fixed number of chars being received, or a specific char, or char by char, or by timeout. Note also the problem of reading "cr" vs "crlf" records across *NIX and Windows, as this has bitten me before. That immediate buffer flush mentioned above has also worked well, situation depending.

Praise the Camel,

Diskcrash