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Date: 28 Jul 88 16:06:58 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!ncrcam!advdev!musky2!terrell@ucsd.edu  (Roger Terrell)
Organization: Muskingum College, New Concord, OH
Subject: Re: Multiple-access files in VMS?
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In article <1391@csun.UUCP> mst@csun.UUCP (Mike Temkin) writes:
>Does anyone out there know how to make a file multi-accessible (readwise)
>in VMS?  There must be a way since I would think that the help file is
>that way.  Any help is appreciated.

>Mike Temkin


To make a file readable (or writeable) by multiple users, just use an
option to the OPEN procedure of whatever language you are using.

An example from VAX Pascal:

  OPEN (InputFile, 'INPUT-FILE.TXT', 
        HISTORY := READONLY,
        SHARING := READONLY);

The statement would be similar in other languages.

--Roger

-- 

Roger Terrell
....musky2!terrell (UUCP) 
terrell@muskingum.edu (CSNet)