[MacPerl] hotfolder mechanism

[Axel Rose <rose@sj.com>]

Hello folks,

before reinventing the wheel I'd like to know whether this
has been done before:

A MacPerl script is watching a hot folder.
When new files or folders arrive it is checked whether they
continue to change. After complete arrival those files are
further processed by whatever Mac program and put into an
out folder.

The concrete task I have in mind is to use StuffIt Deluxe�
for compressing. It's a pity that only Expander but neither
Deluxe nor DropStuff has such a mechanism.

There a several minor problems for which I alreday found a
solution. (stat($file))[8] gives last access time which
continue to change until copying into the hot folder is
finished. Controlling StuffitDexlue� with AppleScript is no
problem too.

But processing dropped folders get's cumbersome. A module
for having the watched/hot folder mechanism seems to be a
common question for me though it is hard to implement with
all sorts of error checking. Imagine one pulls out a dropped
file from the watched folder or is doing a second copy to it
after it has been processed already.

Any thoughts about this are very welcomed


Many regards,
Axel
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