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Re: Save file exclusively locked when displaying?

On 8/2/21 9:38 AM, Mark Waterbury wrote:

You cannot read and update individual "records" in a save file; it
can only be read or written in its entirety, from start to end ... as
a sort of "atomic" operation. If you have ever canceled a SAVOBJ
command and tried to display an "incomplete" save file, you will get
errors.
Actually, if I remember right, that's not *entirely* true: digging into a save file, record-by-record, is part of how Dave McKenzie's UNDEL2 (a customized version of which has been incorporated into our QuestView product) does its magic.

It would, however, take me the better part of the day to refamiliarize myself with the details.

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JHHL

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