Thomas-
Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 8:48:30 PM, you wrote:
>> Any idea what happens when both try to access the files at the same time?
TF> Loss of data integrity, corruption or loss of data.
I, OTOH, try to go by the rule that if you don't know what you're
talking about, don't post answers.
I've been using the networked multiuser solution on my own system and
on several client systems for a couple of years now with no problems.
I guess I'll have to stop someday now that you've convinced me it will
never work.
In short, accessing the database files is a READ operation and TB
handles it well. You don't (generally speaking - this *is* microsoft
we're talking about here) cause data corruption problems by reading a
file. Multiuser deletions *could* possibly cause a problem if
file-locking isn't implemented properly, but I've never seen a race
condition where this has happened. At any rate, I regularly have
multiple users reading the same documents and replying to them
("hey... take a look at so-and-so's message").
Maybe you're thinking of Eudora, where multiuser situations can and do
corrupt the message database (but importing the corrupted file into TB
fixes it <g>).
-Mark Wieder
Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2
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