Printing report when a record is being updated

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/11/2013 12:24 PM, Scott Walker wrote:
> Ken,
>
> The -ro flag indeed works like I wanted.  The main problem I see is the
> generating output part to report preparation takes about 10 times as long
> with -ro set as without.
>
> Is that to be expected?

No.  In fact, I would expect it to run a smidge faster, especially on a 
Windows network, as the locking calls aren't being done.

>> -----Original Message-----
[...]
>> On 1/10/2013 4:32 PM, Scott Walker wrote:
>>> I am printing a customer list.
>>>
>>> Someone else is updating a customer record and thus has that one
>>> record locked..
>>>
>>> Is there a way for me to get fp to just get the data for that customer
>>> record from disk (I'm not trying to update it) and thus get the report
>>> to continue without having to wait on the other user to release the
>>> record lock.  I know I will be getting the data from before whatever
>>> changes they make.
>>
>> If you are not updating records, I believe passing *report the "-ro"
>> (read-only) flag will turn off record locking as well.

-- 
Kenneth Brody