Best way to poll for existence of a file?

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Walter Vaughan wrote:

> Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> 
> > The thing is that even though the file-server is running on Linux I am 
> > running FP as a Windows operation so CRON won't work as I can't 
> > execute the task as a Linux process.  I guess my only choice is to 
> > have a FilePro task running in the background constantly checking for 
> > a file.
> 
> You have Windows Scheduled Tasks, which work most quite excellent...
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569

(Coming late to this discussion)

It is possible in Windows to write a program that uses file notification. 
That is, the program tells Windows to notify it if a file of a certain 
wildcard appears, disappears, etc. This avoids any kind of a background 
process. You'd then need a notification mechanism from the Windows program 
to the filePro program.

I don't know if this is practical for you, but I wanted to cover all the 
bases.

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