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  • Subject: Re: Notifying an open program(s) of a new record:
  • From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:34:14 -0400

boothm@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> However there must be a way to signal the program, or at least the
> workstation(s) that a change has occurred?  That seems straight forward
> but it isn't clear to me.  I have been thinking a trigger on the file
> would serve the purpose, and it might if I could see how to notify the
> subfile program.  A second part of that problem is that there would be
> more than one workstation to notify.


Data Queue.  You can attach at data queue to the display file.  Your
program waits on input from either one.

Trigger drops data queue entry, program updates display as if user
pressed a key.


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