in reply to Treat a directory as file queue

Your users could save the files as "filename.PART", and then rename the files to just "filename" when they are ready.

This is the method used by most download managers.

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Re: Re: Treat a directory as file queue
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2002 at 16:18 UTC
    Thanks for all the replies. Currently end-user will copy files from Macintosh to a directory in Win2K, which is mounted by Linux using Samba. Under such circumstances, does it mean I have to choose a time range to determine if it is whole file? Does it mean there's no alternatives for this?