Re:

> By chance, our newest product, CUSoon, will do what you want. We've just

You might check the web ... google shows a number of "cusoon" hits,
the most important being one or more existing "CUSoon" programs for PCs
and Macintoshes.

Additionally, I recommend never choosing a product name unless you can get the
the domain name for it in ".com".   cusoon.com is taken.
(No, Allegro doesn't always follow my advice :)


> CUSoon works using the "watched folder" concept. On the HP3000, you create a

You might investigate if you can use a Windows "notify on file closing"
mechanism, instead of polling.

Why?  For one, with a polling mechanism you might see the file before
it's fully FTP'd ... and accidentally read only part of it.
(A quick test seems to imply that's quite possible, particularly if
the sender is very busy.)

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).
Of course, if there's no such mechanism on the system, it doesn't matter :)

Stan (I've been trying to get HP to put such a mechanism in MPE for over
a decade) Sieler

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