Say I have an outside application dumping words into a text file at random intervals (say between 0.1 and 100 times per second), is it possible for PD to watch this file, and read the words on the fly, as they appear?

Is there an easier or more straight forward way for PD to receive such a continuous flow of words?
Can [netreceive] handle plaintext?

cheers for any ideas!

J

[textfile] to read

maybe if you wanted, you could use some command inside of [shell] or [popen] to check the last time your file was modified, and then only read if it has. infact, thinking about it, you could do it all in [shell] i think the command to read a file is 'cat' (in linux, maybe mac)