Sarah: I'll try using your method first, why don't you use "send in 1 second until the file is not empty" or something like that, instead of a repeat loop with wait?
I guess I could have done it that way, but I would have to incorporate a check for reading a file that was not yet complete, or for a file reading error, if it was still in use by the shell. This works very quickly if there is a connection, and handles a failure smoothly.
BTW: from man sh, "REDIRECTION" Section The mysterious part.. still archane, but there's a touch of light here. and lots of other stuff in man sh, if you have the stomach for bash. ========= Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command ls > dirlist 2>&1 directs both standard output and standard error to the file dirlist, while the command ls 2>&1 > dirlist directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was duplicated as standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist. =========
Thanks for this info, I'm getting worried now, because I almost understand it :-) Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution