Friedrich asks:
> I need to FTP a file to an HP9000 (from HP3000) - no problem.
> After the successful transfer I want to AUTOMATICALLY start
a program,
> which processess the file - ANY IDEAS HO TO DO THIS?

You could poll for a trigger file or you could do something like this:

Generate a unique filename
Transfer it to the HP9000
Use wget to send an http request* to kick off a CGI script that starts your
processing.  The html request would send the unique name of the file.
Process your file.

* For some (not all) security/reliability, you could also send a checksum
and the 9000 would performs the same checksum to make sure the file is
complete and known.

If you have Perl & Apache on your 9000, you can run a CGI script to upload a
file (and subsequently process it).  There are many http upload scripts out
there, but here is a Perl5 example:
http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu/ex/perl5/fup.cgi.txt
and here is how to set up the form (or format your wget request):
http://cgi-lib.berkeley.edu/ex/perl5/fup.html

HTH,

Mark Wonsil

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