[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

Carl Makin carl at stagecraft.cx
Wed Apr 15 21:19:23 EDT 2009


Hi Curt,

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> I was going to use the Unix Epoch timestamps,

Ok, use `date +%s` instead.

> and check that the
> file was actually done being written, but yea, that's the idea.

Shouldn't matter.  On Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X you can rename (or even 
delete) the file while it is being written without buggering it up.  It 
just keeps writing to the same filehandle until the handle is closed. 
This is only a problem on Windows but the script won't work there anyway.

Carl.
(vk1kcm)




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