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Re: [ECS] ecs monitor a file Scott Reston Fri, 12 May 2000 08:03:04 -0400

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On Fri, 12 May 2000 04:35:59 -0700, David Mccoll wrote:

>1 create a script file whith a continuous loop that checks for and deletes
>the "info file" after sending the necessary parameters to postite then it
>would have to pause or wait before looping.  What worries me about this
>method is the amout of CPU time this kills effectively locking the machine
>into a task.

i asked mark about this method a while back. he seemed to think that it'd be ok to continuosly
monitor for the file because windows would problably cache the 
information, making the check very quick... either way, can't hurt to try!


scott reston
scott@theRestons.com
http://theRestons.com/scott/

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