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From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Subject: Re: Watching a dir
Message-ID: <1991May1.210752.25013@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 21:07:52 GMT
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Yes, your assumptions are correct.  AmigaDOS provides no facilities for
detecting read accesses to a file or directory, except that it won't
let you open a file for write during a read.

Also, with file-change notification, you are notified when a file that
was open for write is closed.  It need not have changed, and you aren't
notified on every write... just when the writes are done.

This is used in preferences (edit the mouse pointer with DPaint, save
it as a brush, bingo!) and is the same as what I've heard about the
"Hot Links" in Apple's System 7.0.
-- 
	-Colin
