Output Processing Running

[Jeff Harrison]

Bob Simcoe wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Hope you can help.
> 
> What's the best way to find out, within processing, if output 
> processing is running on another file.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
> 

I don't know what the best way to do this is.  On Unix systems in the past I
have done the following system commands before entering processing:

if `ps -elf | egrep "file1|file2" | egrep "post1|post2" >/dev/null`
 then                                                                     
 echo Sorry You cannot generate payroll while reports are re-printing     
 echo Press enter to continue                                             
 PRINTLOCK="YES"; export PRINTLOCK                                        
 read dummy                                                               
fi                                                                        

I suppose you can do a user command from within processing to do the same
thing.

Another way to approach this would be to read the lockfile with the raw io
functions.  However, I don't like to rely on that since it is possible for
that to get out of synch.

Jeff Harrison
jeff.harrison at epixweb.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport - The fastest and easiest ways to generate
code for filepro exports and imports.  Demos available upon request.