Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:58:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <unursinan AT unur DOT com>
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On 26 Aug 2001, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

<snip>

> Alas, AFAIK there's no way for a DOS program to plug itself into the
> Windows file operations chain.  I don't know about any functionality
> which could allow a DOS program to register a callback for
> file-oriented activities.

I guess I wasn't clear. I am not interested in plugging into the Windows
file operations chain. Rather, I am curious about if I can create similar
functionality by chaining into DOS interrupts even when not running under
Windows. I think it is easier to go with the Windows solution and use
cygwin for this task.

> You could, of course, write a VxD that would export such a service,
> but I doubt that you had that in mind when you asked your question.

you are right :)

> What exactly do you want to do in this program?  That is, assuming you
> know some file was created or deleted, what would the program do with
> that info?  (It's possible that the general problem cannot be solved
> with DJGPP, but some specific problem can.)

I have a bunch of programs running on different machines generating data
on a network drive. I wanted a program on a "monitor" computer to watch
these data files, and process them when they were done.

Thanks for your response.

Sinan.
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