Last week, Josh discussed how we can use the ConvertFile function to convert files from their base format into HTML, in LDC #136. This week, we’re going to take that idea one step further, and create a script that can start and stop a background process that monitors a folder for files to convert. If it finds a file that hasn’t been converted, or has been modified since it was last converted, the background process will convert the file into HTML for us automatically. This creates a “hot” folder effectively, that’s monitored for jobs to do.
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