Triggering processes through Samba

[Brett Worth]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Dejonghe, Koen wrote:

> The way I will set it up is like this: a Progress program will sit on 
> a named pipe and wait for input. As soon as something comes in, it 
> will start reading and pump the data into the database. The bar-code 
> readers can send the information onto the named pipe.

Only thing to watch for is that the barcode reader probably needs to
close and reopen the file after writing data to it.

Brett

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