lookup file locked

[Kenneth Brody]

Faisal Karim wrote:
> 
> Is there any way I can display in filepro if someone is updating a record.
> Currently filepro puts a message on the bottom that the record# is being
> updated, but it does not show who is updating it.  Does anyone in this group
> know a solution for this.  I am running 4.8.12 in open server.   Thanks in
> advance.

In 5.0, you can tell filePro to fail the lookup if it's locked, and then
use LOCKED() to test if the lookup failed because it was locked.  However,
it doesn't tell you _who_ has it locked.

On *nix systems, you can use my showlock utility along with Bob Stockler's
lock.info shell script wrapper to determine such things.  There is a version
for SCO available on Laura's website at

    http://www.hvcomputer.com/download/public.html

Look for "lock.info".

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