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From: [e-mail] (John Crookshank)
To: [e-mail] (lightwave)
Subject: Re: Render from PC to Amiga PAR
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On 02-Jul-95 10:48:19, Animation Productions
([e-mail]) E-Mailed:

> I got an interesting answer about using the AMiga, through AREXX, to
> detect and pick up the files directly off the NFS mounted IBM drive. I
> dont  know if it works and I really dont know where to start, but I will
> look into  it, any suggestions! I know I can get files (through DOPUS)
> directly of the IBM drive running  AmiTCP, but to automate this whilst
> the IBM is rendering is beyond me I  think (hell, I'm just an animator)

Yup - sure could. We use a small Arexx program on our Amiga network as a
print spooler. It does the same thing you are talking about: Monitors a
directory on the hard drive for incoming files, and when they appear,
copies them to the parallel port, then goes back and deletes them, and
waits for more. While the source code is too specific to our print spooler
to be of much help, the basic steps in the arexx program are:

1) Use AmigaDOS LIST with the lformat option to generate a text file list
   of the files that are in the directory of your choice. If the file list
   is empty, go to step 5.

2) Open the text file and read the filename(s) into an array. Delete the
   text file.

3) Copy the files to the destination (DDR:).

4) Delete the original file(s).

5) Wait for a short time (10 seconds?)

6) Go back to step 1.

JC.
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