Ok. I guess I'll just have to make a live connection and try it out. My problem is that just connecting involves a lot of things. The machine that my code is to connect to is a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) of a local telco. I just wanted some assurance that the code wouldn't have to be run again after each time the SMSC accesses it. The actual program that I'm using is actually much longer than my example, but the structure is identical to what I showed you. So for as long as the client connects and sends SOMETHING, anything, then my code will continue to listen for the next piece of data from the client? Right? Thanks for your help.

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