> Is it possible to have a unique .bat file for each machine but have a
> central dist.points file say on a fileserver? I probably would want all the
> windows/mac machines reporting to a single file if possible.
Under Windows, you could in principle do it by using Cygwin's symbolic
links to link the dist.points files on every machine to a shared file
on the server. However, there is a danger of garbled output if two or
more ECDL processes write to the file simultaneously.
> Any ideas? or should I just have them report via http?
You could put all the files on the shared network disk, as follows:
ecdl.exe
ecdl-mmx.exe
<subdir for machine 1>
run-ecdl.bat <edited so as to run ..\ecdl-mmx.exe>
dist.points
saved.state
<subdir for machine 2>
(same files as for machine 1)
(etc)
This way, all the dist.points files can be consulted and moved around
from any machine.
This said, http mode is a lot less hassle if your machines are
permanently connected to the Internet.
> On another note, everytime I run the Windows program, a DOS window pops
> up....any possibility of developing something that will minimize to the
> systray as to not be so obvious or intrusive? I don't want people closing
> DOS windows while the program is running.
This seems to require turning the ECDL program into a full-fledged
Windows application -- it's beyond my Windows programming abilities,
but maybe someone with the required knowledge will do it.
I thought it was possible to change the properties of a batch file so
that it would always start as a minimized DOS box, but I couldn't find
how.
- Xavier Leroy
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