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Re: Using Public Drop box folders



On 2/15/05 8:19 PM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> Several of my teachers have asked for a way to have students hand in
>> documents electronically and I'm looking for a quick, painless
>> solution.  I thought about setting up a workgroup for each teacher and
>> having an associated groups folder owned by the teacher for each group,
>> but it seemed like a lot of work to manage.
> 
> Why not just use a folder action that will take the file the student drops
> on a folder, pre-pend that student's name to it, and then transfer that file
> to the teacher's machine? If you enable ssh on the teacher's machine, you
> could use a one line sftp command.

The only disadvantage to this, (and it may not be one) is that once the
student lets go of that file into the folder, it's outta there.

-- 
John C. Welch         Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com              Mac and other opinions
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