Thank you both. I was hoping that there was some low-level check, like the file attributes, etc. that would prevent my having to ask the client to do additonal programming. But this sounds like a good solution.

If I can discover a method, I will post it here.

>>>- get sending program to do something to indicate that the transfer is done. Something like transfer a 2nd file with the same name but with a .DNE extension so that you know the original is done.
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>>I've been using that method for some time now, and it works just fine. I send the filename.ext, followed by a filename.ok if the first file was successfully transferred. My pickup program looks for the .ok file, then processes the main file when it's found.
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>There is something to be said for simplicity. :-)