Re: React to File changes

["William C. Allen" <allenwc@home.com>]

>Hi,
>
>You don't say what the overlying OS is that the DOS program is
>running under, but if it's NOT W2K,

It is actually Win98 at this point.

>mknod some_file p

This sounds good and it seems to work . . . except:

$cat temp > some_file
gives me the expected result

however, if I try . . .
$ cat temp | some_file
sh: some_file: cannot execute - Permission denied
$ls -l some_file
prwxr-xr-x  1 allenwc  1000  0 Feb 13 10:54 some_file
$

>I had this running as a communication method between DOS & Unix until
>W2K was installed @ A clients.  This completely broke it, as the
>file would be deleted first, then overwritten ( no change to the actual
>application, W2K was being very kind and doing more than it was asked! ).

Did you find a way to get W2K to NOT delete the file first?
Currently the system does not delete the file it just removes the 
contents first.

What would I do if I wanted to pretend that my program was a block 
character device like a terminal or a printer?

mknod /dev/lpt3 b 16 3

???
In that case I'd be getting input from the stdin right?
Have to think about how to wait for input in this case though.
-- 
Later . . . 'liam

allenwc@home.com
William C Allen, BLS, EET

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others"
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