"text file busy" (was RE: FW: OT: broken/useless ansi...)

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
> Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:46 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: "text file busy" (was RE: FW: OT: broken/useless ansi...)
>
>
> Mark Luljak propounded (on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:29:52PM -0400):
> | Confusious (John Esak) say:
> | > Oh, okay, I was getting the wrong impression. One of JP's
> messages said
> | > something like "nothing is going to be fixed..."  I didn't
> see whether he
> |
> | That referred to the ansi console issue which he apparently thinks is a
> | non-issue, not the text file busy omission which he admits is an issue.
>
> The 'text file busy' was never discussed during OSR 6 beta testing
> because no one thought to try copying over a busy file.
>
> I've personally got other issues with the console driver, and for that
> matter with scoansi too: I can no longer generate diacriticals for the
> occasions when I write French or Spanish..
>
> I made it rather clear to SCO engineers, months ago, that I'd like to
> see the Unixware console driver be entirely rewritten, and I've now also
> communicated that I'd like to see the 'text file busy' error message
> re-appear too.
>
> I'm but one voice among many on SCO's horizon, but I've earned some
> points over the years, and maybe my voice hovers a bit... :-)
>
> --
> JP

Great, I can only hope it helps... because the text-file-busy thing is a big
mistake by my lights.

John