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- Please look at the other files in this group, especially multiuse.ch.
- The .bat files direct clipper to various .ch files at compile time.
- Your .prg files must #include director.ch from the current directory
- (i.e., the directory you keep your .prg files in).
- director.ch, in turn, #includes commands.ch and multiuse.ch.
- commands.ch, which can be in your main include directory, "neutralizes"
- the special multiuser commands you have included in your .prg.
- (These commands would open files exclusive for reindexing, and lock files
- and records before replacing fields.)
-
- Depending on the .bat file, multiuse.ch either does nothing (clipsing.bat)
- or redefines those commands and also redefines other regular clipper
- commands (USE and APPEND BLANK, to be specific), so that the .prg compiles
- as a multiuser .obj (clipmult.bat).
-
- The only other thing you need is a few functions to actually do the work. I
- used the ones in LOCKS.PRG, furnished with clipper, as modified by Rick
- Spence (and me, a little).
-
- Disclaimer: This system has been tested only cursorily. I used DesqView to
- make sure that files/records got locked when they should and not locked when
- they shouldn't. But...
- If you use this scheme, you are a BETA TESTER.
- Please keep me informed of any problems you run into and, even better,
- any fixes or improvements you put in.
-
- -- Ted Cloak 73747,3157
-