Hi Michal!

I think you´ll have to download a Postscipt viewer for it, for windows use
"Ghostscript", its freeware...

Sharriff Aina



                                                                                       
                              
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> Hi,
>
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > the problem was discussed here some time before.
> >         [sorry, I didn't got that]
> > > You need some atomic
> > > operation, which cannot be successfully done by two processes at the
> > > same time. One such operation is in most OSes (including Windows NT)
> > > local file rename. Any operation on network drives (NetBios or NFS)
is
> > > not atomic, so you cannot rely on it when synchronizing multiple PCs
-
> > > file locking suggested by Brett Handley is reliable only with a local
> > > file, not a file on a network disk.
> >         [Now, I've learn something ! Thanks !]
> >
>
> Sorry for confusion, rename operation is atomic even on network
> drives. Now I've learnt something from Ladislav ;-) I'm not sure about
> file locking though.
           [Thanks for the tip. I will try to test such a solution.]

> > > I think that you should use TCP port on the server as suggested by
> > > Brett Handley. There are also several distributed mutual exclusion
> > > algorithms that don't require a central server, look at this paper
for
> > > more information:
> > > http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~deepak/cs632/mutual-exclusion.ps
           [I'm still interrested in your paper, but still don't know how
to
read it.
           I apologize for the simplicity of my request, but how can I
access a
readable content ?]
> >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michal Kracik
           [Best Regards,

           chr==]
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