I know this has probably been asked and answered before, but I couldn't
locate anything in the archives. I did reread the thread on triggering an
extract on an HP3000 from an HP9000 and transferring the file back to the
HP9000 for processing.

I'd like something to happen on an HP3000 (a command to run) when a file
arrives in a directory. The command would take care of file
deletion/renaming etc.

I can obviously write some brute force CI script, but was wondering if there
was a more elegant (and resource lean) way of handling the "directory watch"
process on the HP3000.

I'm currently using Sendmail to receive the info in an email message and
fire off a command, but I'd like to change to Samba (or FTP), because I
don't want the 10 second delay introduced by email on both sides.

I notice that 'finfo("file","exists")' doesn't like wildcards.

Regards

Neil

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