Couldn't you just send everything as binary? On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, m b <[email protected]> wrote:
> Appreciate the replies, as always. I give this list huge kudos. I'm > primarily a lurker but I pick up more useful information here than anywhere > else. > > I didn't want to bore you with too much detail about this job, but if > you've ever heard of Sterling Commerce's product called NDM Connect Direct - > that's where I'm ending up with this. > > We have one single client out of hundreds, one client who insists on using > this NDM application to send/receive files. I absolutely loathe this > product. But anyway, internal users drop a file(s) in a specific internal > folder. File(s) gets replicated to a box in a DMZ & trigger file created. > Batch process running on NDM box watches for trigger file, sees it, > initiates NDM transfer job. That's all fine & good. > > Recently, problem comes to me - most of the files we send are ascii, and > they're transferring perfectly. However, some spreadsheets we're sending > are getting hanked up, can we please send those binary. Sigh... OK, sure. > So what I'm attempting to do is on the job that replicates the files out to > the DMZ box, do something like copy *.xls > destination folder 2, copy *.* > > destination folder 1. (I'm sure I'll end up having to sort more file types > but that would be simple to add once this binary/ascii thing is up & > working). But then on the NDM box, have it recognize whenever one of those > folders has a new file(s) in it and then run the appropriate ascii or binary > transmit job. > > Did I mention I absolutely loathe this NDM application? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]> > *To:* NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:58 PM > *Subject:* RE: Batch file task > > What actions do you need to do? Robocopy will watch folders and run > forever…if you just need to do a copy of the contents or changes to those > folders it will work for you. > > > > > > > > *From:* m b [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:45 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Batch file task > > > > I need to create a section of a batch file that will determine whether a > folder has had files added to it or not, and then perform one of two > actions. I was thinking of doing a dir > filename, to get something like > dirlist.txt & oldlist.txt and doing a file compare on the two text files, > but the "fc" command doesn't seem to give me any output I can use within the > batch file. I was hoping it would give me something in "errorlevel", but it > doesn't. > > > > In the end, I'll have a batch file that runs constantly, and each loop it > will look at a couple of folders. If there's something in folder 1, it will > perform action 1, and if there's something in folder 2, it will perform > action 2. > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
