According to Jeff Kell:
>
> On Wed, 15 Feb 1995 22:29:36 GMT Thomas Hagen said:
> >Hello, could someone please help me by describing how to enforce
> >exclusive file locking on all files in a group.
> >My problem is that at work we are several programmers working on the same
> >cobol sources. Some times, by accident, two or more can have opened the
> >same sources, causing a lot of trouble.
>
[ good ideas stuff deleted]
>
> High-budget solution... get a source code control system.
  ^^^^^^^^^^
  How about using rcs that comes with MPE/ix 5.0? That's low budget, but
  I'm not sure how easily it would integrate with traditional MPE files.
 
  Does anyone know how sccs would port to MPE and is there a public domain
  verion?
 
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