I'm not gonna get into discussions about optimistic vs pessimistic locking
nor about holding locks whilst carrying out i/o with the user...

When we used to have a telnet based application we used to log the user name
at an application level so we could then read in the user name who had the
record locked to display a message saying something like "Waiting for record
to be release by FRED BLOGGS"...   

The user is then informed who he needs to contact, rather than a bland "port
no"....

I see no point in messaging the other user... either he is a) intentionally
updating the record, or b) has left it on screen whilst he's gone to the
coffee machine.....  

HTH

Simon



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Kevin Powick
Sent: 27 February 2009 17:50
To: jBASE
Subject: Re: Send Message to Specific Port ?



On Feb 27, 12:16 pm, Gary Calvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe, but of course it will mess up the screen formatting of whatever
> program the user is in.

Yes, that would be highly annoying.  Not a good idea, IMO.

--
Kevin Powick


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