At 12:23 PM -0700 7/27/2001, keith wrote:
>Not so long ago (10:54 am -0500) Gary Aitcheson said:
>>Many thanks to all those who helped with my diificulty with
>>exporting text from Revolution. As I suspected the problem was a
>>minor one. I find that the commands do not work if the document that
>>is being exported to is open on the desk top. Is this everyones
>>experience? If so should it be considered a bug?
>
>As far as I'm concerned, you should be told in some way (in 'the
>result'? Or am I thinking in too SuperCard a manner?) that the file
>is busy.
The result is set to "can't open file" if you try to change a file that's
already open in another application. This is "the way it should be"; you
can't modify a file in two apps at once, because the other application has
no way of knowing that the file has been changed out from under it.
(Another way of putting this is that files are locked when an application
opens them, and while they're locked they can't be written to by any other
app.)
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