We use READU locks - they're much more friendly than semaphores as they can be
given meaningful names that show up with a LIST.READU.

Also they are very quick and easy to test with the RECORDLOCKED() function -
eg.

   IF NOT(RECORDLOCKED(filevar, recordname)) THEN ...

AdrianW







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