Re: [Boost-users] Transferring files across a network.

Asio is not just nice, it is elegant, just like most of boost. I have been using boost for years (since 2000) and pushing its usage here for that time. However people still reinvent the wheel ... often poorly. The libraries I use most are threads and filesystem. I will certainly be using it. I see now that my stumbling block was integrating the filesystem with asio. One thing with boost: whenever you use it to solve a problem, I find that it often exposes new ways of doing things. Thanks Andrew On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote:

"Andrew Maclean" writes:

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What I am thinking of doing is sending the all the files to a directory on the central machine then parsing them there for subsequent inclusion into the database.

Just something to think about: On Unix at least, it would be very simple to do this with rsync and a couple cron jobs. I suspect compatible programs and similar mechanisms exist on most other OS's. You may want to look at what higher-level tools you could use to accomplish this before you delve into the code.

If you do decide to code it up, asio is very nice, and quite fun to learn.

Good luck!

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