Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Stewart Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.programmer Subject: Re: OS_Find &4F Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:25:45 GMT Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <09a6d7b75c.Paul@phorefaux> References: <2b3b10af5c.jmb@jmc.bruck.orange.fr> <5caf1565f8News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <97283caf5c.Paul@phorefaux> Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2106d3f06bc1987cc53c515b789fcb8a"; logging-data="1072999"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19091OTLGuy9D3i/87AJahL" User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/9.00 (MsgServe/9.00) (RISC-OS/4.42) NewsHound/v1.54 Cancel-Lock: sha1:uWoexz4xRnZ9qGwXOMYqqkzENdc= X-Editor: EmailEdit 2.04 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.programmer:6610 In message Steve Fryatt 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