Odd Sockets Problem...

I'm playing around with sockets again and having some odd
responses from the server I'm speaking with.

Sometimes when I send a request, I get a response, but not
all of it...

So it should be:

Me: Command1
Server: Response1a Response1b Response1....
Me Command2
Server Response2

In some cases this works, in other cases it doesn't.
 Sometimes I get:

Me: Command1
Server: Response1a
Me: Command2
Server: Response1b

And from there the responses are all messed up and my app
gets "confused" as to what it should be doing...  

I am using select() before each read().  I've debugged it
and in the cases where I don't get "all the responses" on
one read, if I do another read it gets the rest just fine.

But, two problems with that:

1.  I never know if I got "all reponses" or not.. there
could be 1 or more responses.
2.  I don't know ahead of time the responses I should get.
 

Any ideas why it wouldn't be sending the entire response in
one read() all the time, only part of the time?  I check
RC, and the buffer length is much larger than the data
returned.  Wacky stuff.  :)

Brad