>>we pull text files into tables for processing nightly. The text files are downloaded by FTP from various machines. We need to be able to tell when the text files are closed by this process, because our processing can't work on these files until they are completely downloaded.
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>If you know the file names, you could poll with a timer and FOPEN(), maybe?

don't even remember exactly what our problem was. have moved our system to oracle w/ C and unix scripts handling that issue. thanks for the suggestion.

has it really been a year since i've been here?