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November 2002, Week 3

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Re: Sending HTML email from MPE/iX
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:46:32 +0100
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Stan wrote...

>Also, a notify mechanism is always more timely than a polling mechanism,
>and doesn't require fine tuning (e.g., how frequently the poll happens).

With smbclient the 3000 might drop the file on the PC disk (into a shared
directory) and help putting the "polling burden" on the PC side ;-) ;-)
To address the issue of "seeing the file too early", one might put into
a separate directory and then rename to the polled directory.

Lars (still not a fan of polling approaches)

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