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  3. July 2008

Re: Quick detection of locked records

James,

I think you want OVRDBF WAITRCD() before you open the file. The
WAITRCD() parameter specifies the number of seconds that your program
will wait for a record.

Cheers,
Terry.


On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 16:30 -0800, James Lampert wrote:
I've already determined that %ERROR = true and %STATUS(filename) = 1218
will tell me that the record I'm attempting to CHAIN to is locked.

But is there a way to shorten the wait?

--
James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation



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