> > In short that means that you cannot have one shared qxl.win across the
> > network.
> 
> Wrong. They can't access it at the same time (i.e. after
> "OPEN#3,win1_boot" WIN1 is blocked for the other machine until you do
> a "CLOSE#3"), but apart from that they can share it just fine.
> 
> Marcel
Ah, in my case none of the QPCs would write to the file on the server, they 
would simply read startup information from there, and any extra info stored on 
there. Written information would be stored on a local QXL.WIN on the user's 
drive C: if the need arises.

It's a program to do calculations of volume, weight and checklists to go 
through for planning purposes. Copies might be printed, but nothing stored.

What I envisage is that a small menu driven front end would load master files 
from, say, WIN8 which happens to be on the server. The user would print to 
their local printer if needed, or save to WIN1_ on their own hard disk if they 
really wanted to save something, which wouldn't be an option in the demo 
version used initially at least.

As long as nobody opens a channel to write to it, the QXL.WIN on the server 
could be used by two copies of QPC2 on different machines? Or did I 
misunderstand that bit?


-- 
Dilwyn Jones

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