another solution, one that bo told me about, is to write
a serialization server. then send all the data to the server
script and let it handle writing/reading to/from the one
data file on it's own.

Andrew Martin wrote:
> 
> > I'm confronted with a little but important problem...
> >
> > I'm using a block structure for storing data on a server. 40 PC's -soon
> 80- could potentialy dump their data on the same time into one single data
> file on the server.
> 
> Perhaps better would be for the 40 (or 80) PCs to each write their own data
> into a file on a shared folder on their Hard Disk Drive. That way the PCs
> don't have to _compete_ for network access at the same time. Then a program
> on the server can periodically read each PC (say, every ten seconds or when
> convenient) and accumulate the data files, one at a time.
> 
> Andrew Martin
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