Subj : Semaphore Help
To   : Kevin Miller
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Fri Feb 19 2021 06:19 pm

Hello Kevin,

Thursday February 18 2021, Kevin Miller wrote to All:

 KM> I'm trying to setup some semaphore drops to handle echo and netmail
 KM> exporting.

 KM> I've setup two semaphore types: NETSCAN and ECHOSCAN

 KM> I have noticed that the semaphores are only dropped after exiting GED
 KM> rather than after an echo or netmail message is saved. Can this
 KM> behavior be modified as I'd prefer semaphores be created after a
 KM> message is saved.

 KM> I did notice that the semaphore type 'EXPORTLIST' does get dropped
 KM> after an echo message is saved.

I'll quote my message here a year ago.

Golded allows configuring hot keys for running different programs or scripts. I use Ctrl-N to send netmail and Ctrl-E to send echomail without leaving golded. There are such lines in my golded.cfg:

; repack netmail on Ctrl-N
ExternUtil 1 /path/to/setflag repack
; rescan echomail on Ctrl-E
ExternUtil 2 /path/to/setflag rescan

The setflag script creates a flag file, which initiates packing netmail or scanning message base for new echomail. And in goldkeys.cfg I have

^N   ExternUtil01
^E   ExternUtil02

Michael

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