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Is there a simpler way to do this
```val vendor = buildString {
    repeat(lengthOfVendor) {
        append(readChannel.readByte().toInt().toChar())
    }
}```


on JVM,
```String(ByteArray(length) { readByte() }, Charsets.ISO_8859_1)```

then you have
```CharArray(length) { readByte().toInt().and(0xFF).toChar() }.concatToString()```

If a vendor is encoded in UTF-8 then you can use the `readUTF8Line` method with a limit:
```val vendor = readChannel.readUTF8Line(lengthOfVendor)```

I tried that but it just throws an error when it hits the limit, which I don't want

it could also stop before the limit, which would break the protocol

there is a helper
```val packet = readChannel.readPacket(size)
val text = packet.readText()
packet.release()```
though