OpenEuphoria

Re:copy/send file to Multiple PC's

• Posted by brian_keene at yahoo.com Sep 06, 2001
• 386 views

Renzo:
What about:
1. Share the folder to the LAN where the copied file is (not the
   original).
2. Have your application copy the original file to the shared folder.
3. Create a file in that same folder that tells the other 3 PCs that
   a new data file is ready for processing by its very existance.
4. Have the 3 PCs applications process the file where it sits on the
   shared folder (don't copy, just process it there).
5. When each of the 3 PCs apps is finished, have it place a file in
   that shared folder.
6. The app. on the shared folder's PC sits there waiting for all 3
   files to appear.  When they're all there, delete all 5 files.
7. Check to see if the original file was recreated and if so repeat
   from step 1.

The benefit is that your only doing 1 copy.  You can also eliminate the
2 second loop.  You only check for a new original file when all of the
files have finished with the copied file.  You may not have the
consistancy of 2 second intervals, but this method will probably
eliminate your timing and read/write error problems.

Regards
Brian Keene

--- Renzo Beggia <1213 at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> The source application is making a text file that has a lot of text 
> lines (strings) the name is fixed : 'vskprt.log' (i can't change
> that)
> it is an alarmlog and it gets updated a lot.
> when i move it , the source applicaion creates a new file with the
> same 
> name.(no problem so far)
> The problem is to copy that file to multiple destinations because
> once 
> there the file gets read by my application and i get read/write
> errors.
> 
> isn't there another better way ?
> for example send a signal to my program when the file can be taken or
> 
> not ? how can i do that (the progs are not on the same PC)
> 
> Euphoria has no threads , so i probably can't check all the time for
> a 
> signal.(udp?)
> 
> in short: file1 gets moved to file2 on other path, file2 gets copied
> to 
> file3,4,5 or other paths on 3 other PC's an then file2 gets
> deleted.the 
> other pc's read and process the content of file3,4,5 (may take 5
> sec's 
> because its a 5Kb file sometimes) and then delete file3,4,5.
> 
> What i want to do is just have the 3 or more PC's in a IP network 
> process the same content of 1file and then (once read by all) delete
> it.
> 
> thanks  for any help
> Renzo from Belgium
> 
> 
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