pause to finish copy file

[kpassaur]

Does anyone know of a way to pause a script until a series of files have been copied. I don't want to use wait as the time could vary because of file size and network traffic. I don't think the dos copy command will work as although I could pause the script until it is finished I will have long file names.

Any ideas would be appreicated.

Thanks

[Marcus Tettmar]

What is doing the file copy - the script or something else? If the script then just use FileCopy and the script will not proceed until the copy is complete. Or are you saying you need to wait for some other process to finish copying files ...?

[kpassaur]

Thank you, my real question was how to pause the script until the files were copied. The issuse I am having is not finding files on the server when I execute them with Execute File. So, I plan on copying them to the local PC first, but I cannot execute them until they are finished coping.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Well you just need to do something like:

CopyFile>source,dest
ExecuteFile>dest

ExecuteFile won't trigger until CopyFile has completed.

If you prefer to use DOS do:

Let>RP_WAIT=1
Run>cmd.exe /c copy %source% %dest%
ExecuteFile>dest

Let>RP_WAIT=1 will ensure the script doesn't complete until the copy command has completed.

Both methods should work fine. If you're using Win95/98/Me replace cmd.exe with command.com