The @entsel flag

[John Esak]

Ah, I see, so you are standing on record 0 just for a convenient place from
which to move the Earth, eh?
Thanks,
John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 6:50 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: The @entsel flag
>
>
> John Esak wrote:
> >
> > What are the implications of running two processes on the same
> file using
> > the -xe flag. Both files show 0 when you test to see the record
> >
> >     show "@@rn=" < @rn
> >
> > Do niether of these or both lock record 0?  It all seems to
> work always with
> > more than one user, but am I missing something?
>
> An @RN of zero means you're not on a record.  (Which is true in this case,
> since the "-xe" flag tells filePro to run @ENTSEL before anything else.)
>
> In any case, @ENTSEL is not run in update mode, so the record is
> not locked.
>
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