Hi Steve Lamb,
On Montag, 11. Oktober 1999 at 19:46:44 you wrote:
SL> Monday, October 11, 1999, 10:36:10 AM, Oliver wrote:
>> using filemon and found out that The Bat! tries exactly every ten
>> seconds to open some file called thebat.IPC in the directory where
SL> From the help on command line parameters:
SL> For those who are familiar with programming we give a hint: The Bat! checks
SL> the file called TheBat.IPC which is located in the same directory where The
SL> Bat! executable (TheBat.exe) file is located. In this text file, each line
SL> represents one command that could be executed by the program, so you can write
SL> commands to this file directly and control The Bat! on your PC even over a
SL> local network. Note that TheBat.IPC is deleted as soon as all commands from it
SL> are executed, so if this file do not exist, you must create it.
OK, I didn't read that. Seems to me to be a GoodThing(tm) ;) Anyway, I
do that in some way like this, and it doesn't generate any disk access
(well, of course it does, but it doesn't keep my disk trashing around
all the time ;)
(I seem to recall The Bat! is written in Delphi) :
procedure WaitForCommandFileToAppear;
var h: HANDLE;
theend: boolean;
begin
h := FindFirstChangeNotification (THEBATROOTDIR + '\Commandfiles',
false, FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE);
theend := false;
repeat
if WaitForSingleObject (h, 1000) <> WAIT_TIMEOUT then begin
TriggerWhateverAction;
FindNextChangeNotification (h);
end
else begin
if mylittleterminationflag then
theend := true;
end;
until theend = true;
FindCloseChangeNotification (h);
end;
No guarantee that this will work, I just hacked it in ;)
Maybe the problem isn't about that little file at all. But it's the
only thing I could see with several monitor programs. And that disk
access is definitely coming from The Bat!... If I don't have it
running, it stops immediately.
Oliver Sturm
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