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to: Paul Quinn
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2017-08-11 13:35:54
subject: Re: Argh..

Hi Paul,

On 11 Aug 17 08:10, Paul Quinn wrote to mark lewis:
  about: "Argh..":

 PQ> while my DOS was trying to simply _move_ half a GiB of files to a
 PQ> filebox. Fortunately only once a day.

If you have to do that, create the files in a temporary directory on the
same drive as the filebox. And when the files are ready, do a rename to the
filebox dir. Rename is an atomic operation on most os's afaik. So binkd
won't see any "half" written files.

 PQ> Nevertheless, can't binkD be *stalled* for a node by utilizing *.?sy
 PQ> flags?

The best way, of course, is to use the normal outbound directory in the
propper way for this, and not use a filebox. ;)

Wilfred.

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