showlock command

[Dennis Malen]

Therein lies the problem for AIX. In order for us to upgrade to AIX we had 
to find a system that had a compiler for AIX and pay for filePro to be able 
to log in and re-compile the program. It was worth it to get to 5.0. We will 
eventually go to 5.6. I hate to have to pay for access to a compiler again.


Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: showlock command


> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:00:28PM -0400, Bob Stockler, the prominent 
> pundit,
> witicized:
>> Top Post . . .
>>
>> As an AIX compiled "showlock" program is required, so also is the
>> KornShell required to run the shell script "lock.info", and I'm not
>> sure it's distributed with AIX (though the script could possibly be
>> edited to run under another shell).
>
> Everything I just read indicates that AIX ships ksh and links /bin/sh to
> it.  This is supposed to be the default since at least AIX 4.1.  Shouldn't
> be a technical issue there.
>
> Getting hold of a compiled showlock for AIX...that's another story.
>
> Maybe someone should rewrite it in something a bit more portable as one
> cohesive program rather than script+binary...  Just a thought.  Then 
> again,
> how many fP users run AIX that it'd be worth doing?  Probably not many if
> fP-Tech couldn't even compile 5.0.x on AIX for a long time, they 
> apparently
> never offered fpcgi for it based on their product platform listings, etc.
>
> mark->
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