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- From: LEVITT@SLC.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Stevie Boy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Asynch. signal from VMS
- Message-ID: <DB15A146AEA19B12@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 00:34:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- Does anyone know of a way to get some sort of asynchronous message from VMS
- when a file is written to a directory?
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- I want to write a server that waits for new or existing files to be written to
- a know directory and then processes them. The files will be written by
- applications running on a PC with a logical drive mapped via pathworks onto
- the VAX directory. I have no way of modifying the PC applications, apart from
- specifying the names of the output files, so implementing a special TCP/IP
- message is out of the question.
- Polling the modification dates of files is also out of the question as there
- risks to be hundreds of them. The response time of the server is not too
- critical, but the server needs to make minimal demands on the CPU whilst it is
- idle.
-
- Has anyone out there faced the same problem? Better still, has anyone solved it?
- All ideas and commentaries would be gratefully accepted.
- Please reply to: LEVITT@SLC.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU as I am not yet an INFOVAX user.
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- -Steve Levitt
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