Save command

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/17/2011 11:48 AM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
> The record is written to disk as soon as a save is executed or before that
> if you do a 'write' in processing.

No, the record isn't written until processing ends, or an explicit WRITE is 
executed.

> I don't think a 'free chain' should be run if anyone else is adding records
> to the database.  My experience with this is that the free chain never stops
> running and the other stations 'hang up' until everyone else stops adding
> records to the database.  If a station needs to run a 'free chain' you
> should have the other users exit the program.

The freechain rebuild handles people in the file during the rebuild, 
including adding records.  I have heard over the years from a few people 
that the rebuild hangs or gets in an infinite-restart in such a case, but no 
one has ever gotten me a demonstrable case.

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Kenneth Brody