Usage

MailWatch can be used to watch any file or directory on any volume; as long as the file-system for that volume supports AmigaDOS notification (and most do, except for the very exotic ones). MailWatch can simultaneously watch as many files as you choose, acting in response to changes in those files.

Central to the operation of the program is this concept; the file (or files, or directory/directories) that MailWatch watches can be in one of three states:

None

The file either does not exist, or it does exist but has a filesize of 0.

Old

The file exists, but is either

• already present when the program starts; or
• changed, but smaller than the previous filesize.

New

The file exists, has changed and is larger than the size that it was previously.