In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun 24 Mar, Richard Torrens (RiscOS) wrote: > >
[Snip] > Then where's the problem? If it single tasks, any program running > in a taskwindow on the same machine will not get control back > until Blackhole stops single tasking. At this point you know that > it has finished and is ready. Agreed. But some operations are on one computer, others on another. Unless these take place in the correct sequence - there is a problem. > > Whether a networked command can check the existemce of a file, > > I don't know. Trials I have made along these lines throw up an > > error window 'Please insert disc etc.' > It seems I've misunderstood you. I thought the backup was being > controlled by a Perl program running on the machine with > Slackhole (whoops typo) Blackhole on it and that files were being > copied from that machine onto another on the network. Both computers have Blackhole on. Part on the re-inituialization if to restart both Blackholes. > Correct me if I've got this wrong but if you are remotely > initiating a reboot on this machine and expecting Blackhole to > perform its expiry as part of its startup before it begins to > multitask, Not quite. I'm doing: Roscli -wimp office WO_RemoveTask "BlackHole2" then Roscli -wimp office Filer_Run ADFS::HD5.$.DataApps.!BlakHole2 Roscli is the command for !OscliD and WO_ is in WindOpen > then all you need is a Filer_Run command in > Blackhole's !Run file to trigger off some other program once > Blackhole has finished. That other program might be as simple as > an obey file that creates an empty marker file on the remote > machine, or as complex as a full Perl program to carry on with > the backup process. Yes: that might work. I was trying to do to much in one program I think. I can actually do a Roscli -wimp office Roscli -wimp lab Filer_Run filename which will stack in the Roscli queue and only start the second half when the first has completed. There's a funny in ShareFS about closing a file on a remote computer. This messes up Perl's open statement, so you cannot check it for success. > It occurs to me that you wouldn't need to perform a reboot either > if you could just send Blackhole a faked Wimp message with a > menu clicked reason code. (!Keystroke will do this kind of thing > for you if you don't wish to write a little program yourself.) May investigate that later. Keystroke can do rather too much. I find it impossible to remember half of whayt it can do! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Torrens 4QD manufacture speed controllers for battery electric motors. www sites http://www.4QD.co.uk http://www.4QDtec.com http://www.4QD.org All email addresses are copyright. Resale or use on any lists is expressly forbidden ---------- We use a RISC PC 32 bit RISC computer ----------------
