Jon Diercks writes:
> Does there exist a simple program to monitor a specific process number and
> file name, and based on the rec-ptr of the process serially reading the
> file, provide a status display of percent done?

I wrote such a program here that uses AIF calls to dig into the output spoolers
to examine the rec-ptr of the open spoolfile to determine percent done.  Our
operators can't live without it.

It's 918 lines of Pascal code.  Much of that is devoted to tracking down the
spooler processes, than walking through their list of open files, looking for
something that looks like a spoolfile.

If interest warrants, I could make the source available on my ftp/web site.
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