ranslation is performed;
<li> '<tt>*l</tt>':  reads a line of  text from the socket.  The line is
terminated by a  LF character (ASCII&nbsp;10), optionally  preceded by a
CR character (ASCII&nbsp;13). The CR and LF characters are not included in
the returned line. In fact, <em>all</em> CR characters are
ignored by the pattern. This is the default pattern;
<li> <tt>number</tt>:  causes the  method to read  a specified <tt>number</tt>
of bytes from the socket.
</ul>

<p class=parameters>
<tt>Prefix</tt> is an