From: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Subject: Re: Strange errors
Date: 1998/07/31
Message-ID: #1/1
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Reply-To: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Newsgroups: fido.novell

ab043@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Dwayne Downing) wrote:

>I found out what the problem was (if anybody cares).  NOVELL!
>
>I used a variety of different languages to run my code and ALL of them 
>returned the same error when I opened the file in locked mode. (YES.. 
>even VB).  The program would run SLOW for a while and then crap out with 
>a file access error.  Now, the question is... is it just our network, or 
>is this a bug in NOVELL.  I view this as a most serious bug.
>
While I'm not a programmer, I suggest that your problem is more likely to
be in your approach to the file locking than in NetWare; it might also be a
client configuration issue.  Novell practically wrote the book on file and
record locking for shared access to database files, and since the mid-80's
has been the most widely-deployed platform for shared file access in the
world.  I suspect that if there were a problem with this, the rest of the
world would know about it. 

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