> I've avoided this technique simply because I've never been able to figure > how to account for a crashed process and a leftover file. If your app > crashes (rare, I know) and your temporary file is still present, how do you > distinguish between "current" file versus a leftover?
Simple. Write the milliseconds into the file. Then, when the app launches, grab the milliseconds as its "launch date". When it goes to look in the folder, it will read in the "leftover" file, but because the milliseconds in the leftover is *earlier* than the launch date, it is ignored. It will only read files written into the "watched" folder *after* the launch date. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
