PERFECT!

tiffdump will allow me to check the completeness of a tiff file!
You rock man!
Thanks for your help

P.S.  I always knew in my heart that the problem was NT based.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
To: Amir Nazary <anazary@imagepower.com>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Copying a file from one box to another


> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Amir Nazary wrote:
>
> > The problem is not NT (I never thought I would hear myself say that).
The
> > problem is that I have a cron job that polls a directory periodically
for
> > the existence of files.  Unfortunately, I don't know if the file is
> > completed when the cron job sees it.  I need to test to see that the
file
> > isn't still being written to when the poller sees it and trys to move it
> > elsewhere.
>
> The problem _is_ NT, or to be more exact, the problem is that
> the best solution is for the client to notify the server when
> the file transfer is complete, and that may be non trivial
> using your NT client.
>
> Other options include:
>     - Have the NT client email the file to an account on the
>       unix box, then have a .forward that processes it.
>     - (As someone mentioned) Only pick up on files that have
>       not been modified for a certain time. This is probably
>       the easiest to implement
>     - The cron job can check if the file is a valid tiff (or
>       whatever) file using some tiff tool. You still need to
>       pick up on files that have not been modified for some
>       long time (to handle aborted copies).
>
> David/absolute
>
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