Re: Needed: Small Program to Watch a Network Directory

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From: Christos T. Pyrros
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 19:13

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In article <1992May20.232628.12734@cscdec.cs.com> jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler) writes:
>In article <1992May20.125512.10622@udel.edu> pyrros@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Christos T. Pyrros) writes:
>>I'm not much of a programmer, so I wanted to see if anyone has implemnted
>>this or something like this, or has any tips on how I can implement this
>>in a batch file or something:
>>
>>Program does a directory of f:\login
>>If login.exe exists, wait 10 minutes, go back to beginning
>>If there is a network error send this to COM1:
>>at
>>atdt5551212,,,486911   //This calls a beeper to get my attention!
>>Wait 10 minutes, go back to beginning.
>
>This is an easy thing to do, but I have 1 question. Why is login
>disappearing?

The idea is that if you can read login.exe the server is probably up, if not
the server is probably down (or a connection is broken, etc).


Chris

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