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| From | Paul Stewart <phorefaux@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.programmer |
| Subject | Re: OS_Find &4F |
| Date | 2026-03-11 10:25 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <09a6d7b75c.Paul@phorefaux> (permalink) |
| References | <b171d8ae5c.Paul@phorefaux> <2b3b10af5c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> <5caf1565f8News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <97283caf5c.Paul@phorefaux> <mpro.tavube00gpoog1f85.news@stevefryatt.org.uk> |
In message <mpro.tavube00gpoog1f85.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 22 Feb, Paul Stewart wrote in message
> <97283caf5c.Paul@phorefaux>:
>> Therefore my next question. I am using webget and outputting the log file
>> to scrap. I am trying to update a window with percentage of file
>> downloaded, which as I now know works fine with Memphis, but not anything
>> else :(. The file itself is open by webget as it is updating it. I also
>> need to open it for reading so I can get the download percentage.
>>
>> With OS_Find not working apart from on Memphis, is there another way to do
>> this?
> Would using PipeFS solve the problem? That has been in the OS since
> RISC OS 3, and is intended to allow for inter-task file transfer.
> I've used it in PrintPDF for communicating with TaskWindow-based tasks, but
> not in quite this way. I would assume (but haven't checked) that it would
> allow reading from a file that something else was writing to, because that
> feels like a significant part of its purpose.
Run into same issue with PipeFS, with added bonus if it blocking when pipe
gets full. Everyday is a learning day :)
--
Paul Stewart
Sent from A9home running RISC OS 4.42
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