Doesn't GMULTI require that other accessors specify GMULTI as well?  If FTP
has opened the file without GMULTI, I don't think another process can do so.
I have never had a really thorough understanding of GMULTI, so I may be
completely off-base here...

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:04 AM
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Subject: ftp and file opens


hi all!

i'm curious about how ftp -- on the mpe side -- is opening a
file to be 'put' somewhere.  obviously (hopefully?), it's
for read access...but what else?  i seem to remember someone
asking about this recently....but at usual i can't find it
:-)

and why i'm asking....someone has reported to me that while
they're trying to ftp a certain file, writes to this same
file (from other processes) are failing *even though* the
ftp process has issued a file equation with ';acc=in; shr;
gmulti' for the file.  the file is just your basic file.
it's not a msg file or anything like that.....          - d

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