Re: CYGWIN file structure

[James Bergstrom <bergstro at eng dot utah dot edu>]

We are opening these files inside a CYGWIN program.  The webcam writes
a new file every few seconds, and we want our program to read the
directory and send the most recent file (the file with the largest number
at the end) to a client GUI running somewhere else.


On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> At 07:40 PM 4/24/2001, James Bergstrom wrote:
> >We are writing a driver in CYGWIN to read an image file from a directory
> >on the hard disk.  The files are placed there every few seconds by a
> >webcam, and they are named "image1.tif", "image2.tif", etc.  We know the
> >directory they are in, and we know that they are named "image[num].tif",
> >but we are having trouble finding utilities to examine filenames in
> >cygwin.
> 
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "we are having trouble finding utilities to 
> examine filenames in cygwin"?  What's wrong with 'ls' (or MS's 'dir' for
> that matter)?
> 
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> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> 
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