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Paul Cooling
30-Dec-2005, 11:16 AM
I need to update a few systems before the end of the year.
Can I use the Make_File command while people are on the system?
(I know I can't use dffile, but is it okay to create files via a program)

This is SCO Unix systems.

Thanks, Paul Cooling

Vincent Oorsprong
31-Dec-2005, 03:53 AM
Paul,

Make_File was a command to create a table from scratch and has been
superceded since 1995 with the DataFlex database API command set
Structure_Start...Structure_End. However both commands cannot modify an
embedded database table while users are accessing it. You need to open the
table in exclusive filemode.

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