Well summarised Roy, reading the same thread yesterday I was starting to
see the same solution glimmering amongst the twigs :-)

Are there any restrictions that apply on what types of file or how the
file is being accessed? would it even work with a database?

Alan

In article <[log in to unmask]>, Roy Brown
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>After years of painstakingly ringing round and tracking down remote
>users every time a bug fix needed a new XL to be installed, or a
>formsfile that they were all using, I thought there has to be a better
>way, and started investigating the Posix 'rm' command.
>
>Then I noticed the MPE command PURGELINK, which wonder of wonders seems
>to do pretty much the same thing; 'purges' a file that people are using,
>so you can replace it with a newer one, but leaves the existing
>accessors undisturbed until they log off. After which the file really
>*is* gone.
>
>So instead of the old 'get everybody off, install the new file, get
>everybody on again', you can 'install the new file, and invite everyone
>to log out and log in again at their leisure'.
>
>Those with the problem will want to do it immediately, to get the cure;
>other will wait for a convenient stopping point, or even leave it until
>the end of the working day.
>
>Way cool! But, alas, the Help on this command, and even the Commands
>manual, fail to give the slightest hint that you can use it for this....
>
>

Alan Yeo
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