RE: How to tell if a program is active?

That's a good idea, except when the program bombs it leaves the value
there... on the other hand, that COULD be what you want sometimes?


-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Goldenberg [mailto:bpcsguru@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 1:31 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: How to tell if a program is active?


An easy way to accomplish this is programmatically:  when program starts,
check
a data area for a value.  If dataarea blank, then put in a value to it and
run
program.  If dataarea already contains a value, then display an error
message
and don't run this program.

Regards,
Boris Goldenberg

--- "Reger, Bill" <breger@levitz.com> wrote:
> I need to make sure that a particular program is running only once.  I do
> not want multiple occurrences of this program to be running.  I'm sure my
> mind is already on Thanksgiving time since I can't seem to figure out how
I
> can check whether a certain program is active or not.  Can anyone help me?
> 
> William K. Reger
> Senior Project Manager
> Levitz Furniture Corporation
> Phone:  (561) 994-5114
> E-mail:  breger@levitz.com <mailto:breger@levitz.com> 
> 
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