I don't take a return value from them, so maybe that made it? Only:
Writeline stream,a$
In theory it should be possible to write to a stream that is established without to wait for a handshake (at least not on the blitz level).
Writeline stream,a$
In theory it should be possible to write to a stream that is established without to wait for a handshake (at least not on the blitz level).