Re: [MacPerl] Newbie question

["John Murray" <jmnc@lis.net.au>]

I spend more time on systems other than Mac than I used to. I see names like
"Appletalk" and "Powerbook" and "Shared Folder" and they seem like sweet
girlfriends in an all to distant past..

Errr ... maybe I need to get out and about a little more ... :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Axtens <bruce_axtens@sil.org>
To: <macperl@macperl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MacPerl] Newbie question


> Dear List
>
> I am still listening, and though I don't have to do what I originally
asked
> about, it has been very instructive to read your responses. Thank you all!
>
> What I was going to do (but now don't have to) was to set up a print
> spooler. I thought (wrongly) that the second hand printer I had brought
into
> the office could not be connected to the AppleTalk network. I still wanted
> to make it available to the network so I set upon the idea of connecting
an
> old PowerBook to it and networking the PowerBook.
>
> With that in place, I was going to set up a shared folder on the PowerBook
> into which people could stick stuff for printing, having done a print to
> file and having the location of the file in the shared folder. The Perl
> script (running on the PowerBook) was then going to examine the contents
of
> this folder and having found a file that was no longer
'busy-being-filled',
> would take same and parcel it off to the printer.
>
> That was the idea. Thankfully (but with some disappointment) I did not
have
> to do it, as the printer was in fact networkable.
>
> Again, thanks for your input. I am still interested to know how you can
> know, for sure, that the file is not open and thus is available for
> processes similar to that which are outlined above.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Bruce M. Axtens.
>
>
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