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How to monitor a specific file for changes

Orlin Grigorov
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- Erik de Castro Lopo
  - Orlin Grigorov
    - Erik de Castro Lopo
    - Jake Donham
      - Orlin Grigorov
    - Karl Zilles
      - Orlin Grigorov
        
        Dave Benjamin
        
        Orlin Grigorov
      - Richard Jones
        
        Karl Zilles
        
        Sylvain Le Gall
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@m...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] How to monitor a specific file for changes

Orlin Grigorov wrote:

> Oh, here's another idea---every certain amount of time, I just compare my
> last saved version of the file to the current one---if different, there's my
> event.   What do you think?

I think you need to drop OSX and move to a better OS :-).

Erik
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