>I'm currently FTP'ing data from the HP-3000 to a Linux FTP server.

Well, if the 3000 side were running Samba/iX, you could probably make
a selected directory accessible as a share and have the Linux side do
an smbmount or mount -t smbfs to get a more permanent connection than
with the ftp approach...

The MPE side could deposit files into the selected directory (with
:copy or /bin/tobyte or probably by using :rename or /bin/mv to make
sure that the Linux side won't notice a file before it's complete)
and the Linux side could use a simple operation like /bin/ls to see
if files are ready for processing (and sleep for a while to avoid too
much polling load).

The smbmount approach would keep a TCP connection open instead of
opening separate connections for each file transfer and polling.

Lars.


Oh, on a second thought... You could also have Samba run on the Linux
side and configure the "print command" to trigger a custom script for
processing the incoming data. Then the 3000 could send with smbclient
similar to :xeq /bin/smbclient "\\linux\dummyLP -P -c 'print myfile'".

With this approach, you would not even have the polling at all.

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