records not locking?
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Apr 16 08:05:23 PDT 2014
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Del <neroni3000 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Don't know anything about CentOS.
>> However, I have been dealing with filePro for many years, and always
>> understood two people could not update the same record at the same time
>> (using dclerk or rclerk).
>> After reading your post, I tried it here on a Windows 7 based system, and
>> was a little flabbergasted to find that the system allowed me to get into
>> update mode on the same record from two different sessions.
>> However, when I tried it on my Unix system, an attempt to update a record
>> that was already being updated on another session gave me the message,
>> "Record Is Being Updated - Access Denied".
>> This difference between the Windows based system the the Unix based one is
>> very surprising (and disturbing!).
[...]
Are you using an ancient MS-DOS (non-network version) of filePro?
What's the exact version number on the program you tried on Windows?
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Kenneth Brody
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