Issue with FOLDERMONITOR Command or Help

[Jay Sage]

The v34 help for FOLDERMONITOR includes the following:

However, the "(include/exclude)" information does not appear.

[TCC34.00.16 | C:\temp]
>*foldermonitor . /I"*.pdf" created forever echo hello & *foldermonitor
C:\temp   created   (0/FOREVER)   echo hello

 

[Alpengreis]

Checked with build 20 - seems all good there.

 

[Jay Sage]

I'm running build 21 now, and the include/exclude specification is not included in the output.

>*foldermonitor . /i"*.btm" created 1 echo hello & *foldermonitor
C:\commands\bat   created   (0/1)   echo hello

Oh, I see that the help has changed. It no longer says that the "(include/exclude)" state will be reported.

 

[Jay Sage]

Well, the local help has changed:

However, the online help still has the old version:

 

[Alpengreis]

Indeed!

 

[rconn]

Online help isn't updated on every build. (It takes several hours to update everything.)

 

[Jay Sage]

A separate question: Is there any way to find out what files a running folder monitor is working with, i.e., the include and exclude specifications? I'm only beginning to make use of the FOLDERMONITOR command, but it strikes me as odd that the command can show one the running monitors, the directory each one is monitoring, what changes it is looking for, and what command it will run when those changes occur, BUT one cannot find out what files are included or omitted from the monitor.

 

[rconn]

I would assume that since you created the FOLDERMONITOR call, you would know what changes it's looking for.

 

[Jay Sage]

At the time I created it, yes, but maybe not later. When I create a file, I know when I did it, but the DIR command shows the time. It was mainly an academic question. The help for FOLDERMONITOR originally showed that it reported the include/exclude information, suggesting that you originally intended to make that information available.