fp file locking behavior

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:31:41PM -0400):

| Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 23 May 2007 13:29:53 -0400):
| 
| > Ken Brody wrote (on Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:26:48PM -0400):
| [...]
| > | Unless you are in read-only mode, filePro opens the key/data/index
| > | files for read/write mode.  (All automatic indexes are opened, not
| > | just the "active" one.)
| >
| > That's the way (opened -all- automatic indexes) I -thought- I had
| > remembered it, but not so on filePro 5.6.06 on SCO OSR6.
| 
| Yes, all automatic indexes are opened.  Try the following:
| 
|     xx = listbox(@allfiles)

I'll try that later . . .

| > I entered the filePro file "fpcust" via "index.A" using dclerk and
| > sat at the first record found when I pressed [Enter] at the prompt
| > to enter a value to be searched for.  On exiting, a listing of the
| > pertinent files showed:
| [...]
| 
| That just means that only index.A was modified.  The rest of the
| indexes were opened.

But index.A was not modified.  I just sat at the "Enter Selection"
prompt for a minute or so before X-ing out.  The time stamp on the
index was the time I entered the file, and not when I exited it.

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