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UNLOCK, written by Kai Iske January 11. 1995
This is PUBLIC DOMAIN; you may do with it whatever you like
If you change/republish/delete/sell the program or do anything similar, please
be so kind to keep my name within the program and all the other files, even
though you`re not obliged to, as for the definition of Public Domain
This is just a little program to fix problems occuring with programs, leaving
locks on objects somewhere on your HD. Have you ever had the problem, that when
you tested a program just downloaded from a BBS, it seemed that the program
kept a Lock() on some object on your HD? If so, you know that you can not
delete the object (dir, file whatever), without removing the lock first or
rebooting. I have encountered this problem lots of times, but didn`t always
want to launch a System Monitor, to remove the outstanding locks, just to
delete something.
UNLOCK was written using SAS 6.51....
!!! UnLock requires OS 2.x and up to run, UnLock is PURE !!!
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What does UNLOCK???
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As stated above, it may remove locks. Furthermore it may even show locks the
system knows about. You may supply patterns in order to unlock more than just
one lock. All instances of a lock, ie. all locks matching the pattern(s), will
be unlocked.
WARNING: It is extremly dangerous to unlock anything which is still in use
(Assigns, Path-ed directories etc.pp.) This is just to unlock something you
don`t need anymore.
UnLock OBJECT/M,SHOW/S
Explanation
OBJECT: Pattern (or full name) of Object to be unlocked/displayed
If you don`t specify an absolute path (like DH1:...) UnLock
composes a name relative to the current directory.
SHOW : If you supply this switch, UnLock will list all locks matching
the supplied pattern(s), or all locks if you didn`t specify any
pattern(s). Same thing will happen if you don`t specify anything
Examples
UnLock #?TCP/BIN DH1:Dummy
Will unlock all locks on anthing ending with TCP/BIN and all locks on
DH1:Dummy
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How to install UNLOCK???
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Simply copy it to a directory within you search path (eg. C:)
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Version 37.0
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- initial release
Hope you like it, if not, delete it......
So long,
Kai
--- Kai Iske
Brucknerstrasse 18, 63452 Hanau, Germany, Tel.: +49-(0)6181-850181
Z-Net : KAI@SWEET.RHEIN-MAIN.DE Fido: Kai Iske, 2:244/6302.11
internet : iske@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de IRC:kiske
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