I'm writing a script that will allow our UNIX users to open Office Docs from their shell into a Windows session. The only big problem I'm running into is the communication between the UNIX perl script and Windows. How can the UNIX-side perl script know when the document is no longer being edited under UNIX? The user running the script is guaranteed to be the only one editing the doc. We use Samba on our UNIX machines to give access to these documents, and Samba has a prog that allows you to see which files are open, so I am going to use that, if you fine people don't have a better idea. Basically, the flow of this part of the UNIX-Perl script is supposed to go like so: (1) Check to see that Document is not being edited (RCS) (2) Copy to Samba-Shared Directory (1) Tell Windows to open Document (2) Wait for Document status to be "NOT OPEN" (3) If altered, copy changes to original Document (4) Release control of Document (RCS) Perhaps there is a way to use the same capabilities that Windows does to know if a document is being currently edited? If not, like I said, I'll just use the binary provided by Samba (though it's just so...messy...) ;> Thanks... -- Aaron Rainwater "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ~ Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-admin
