in reply to Checking for finished file transfer

A little more information would help.

What OS are you running under?

How are you invoking XCOM to do the transfer? Are you intending doing this from within your script?

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Re: Re: Checking for finished file transfer
by qadwjoh (Scribe) on Aug 14, 2003 at 15:56 UTC
    I'm using Windows 2000 Server and yeah, I'm invoking the XCOM command from within my script to fetch files before encrypting them.

    thanks
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      If the command your invoking returns before the transfer is complete, then your into doing hooky stuff like looping and checking the filesize (-s) to see if it is still growing.

      The other possibility is that the process (XCOM service?) that is doing the transfer may open the file with an exclusive open, in which case loop and sleep until you can successfully open it.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks.
      "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
      "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller
      If I understand your problem, I can solve it! Of course, the same can be said for you.
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