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List:       nsbasic-palm
Subject:    [nsbasic-palm] Re: sig2bmp
From:       "g_abdi2" <g_abdi2 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2006-08-23 17:53:39
Message-ID: eci4n3+9e9p () eGroups ! com
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Thanks Doug that my help, I will try, let me see if it works
--- In nsbasic-palm@yahoogroups.com, Douglas Handy <dhandy1@...> 
wrote:
>
> Guled,
> 
> >Hi everyone, I set up sig2bmp to convert signatures and it works 
well 
> >but I have to do manually right clicking my pdb, is there any way 
to 
> >connect my nsbasic conduit or convert when I hotsync?  
> 
> You need to elaborate on "my nsbasic conduit".
> 
> I don't use conduits myself, but I'm assuming there is a way for 
you to know
> when a file is completely transferred.  You could then spawn 
Sig2Bmp to run on
> the file if you are doing a mass conversion of all signatures using 
command line
> options to control the output filenames, etc.
> 
> Or as the conduit processes each record, you could have the conduit 
extract the
> string with the signature and then write that string to a temporary 
file (by
> itself; not as part of a pdb).  Then spawn Sig2Bmp naming the 
temporary file as
> input and whatever you want as the output filename.  When Sig2Bmp 
starts, it
> examines the input file to see if the initial bytes look like a 
signature header
> or a PDB header.  If a signature header, it just converts the file 
contents to a
> bitmap and quits.  If a PDB header, it uses the other command line 
options to
> dictate whether to process one record or all of them, how to name 
the output
> files, etc..
> 
> But in general, to convert a given signature on the fly during a 
conduit or
> other loop, copy the signature string to a temporary file and pass 
it to Sig2Bmp
> -- which you may want to run minimized ro whatever.
> 
> Doug (author of Sig2Bmp)
>








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