>>>Dragan, look in your e-mail box. :)
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>>Still nothing there... and checked the junk and trash folders as well.
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>Stupid me. I forgot to press Send/Receive. Ok, it should be there now. :)

Stupid Outlook. Can't it just send when you click send? Or is it just another wrong default? Never used the beast unless it was preinstalled on my office machine.

Anyway, I've found the famous quote (thanks for both the table and the tip). It was somewhere in the discussion of the then netware.plb, which had some advanced locking mechanisms. It's also interesting that this text came with version 2.6 (1994), when Microsoft already had some usable networking - in W3.11, because netware.plb is strictly related to Novell. And there was no such library for NetBEUI at the time, not that I know of.

Here goes:

Record Access Considerations
When you modify records in a database that is part of a transaction, other users on the network will not have access (read or write) to the records until you end the transaction.

When other users on the network try to access records you have modified, they must wait until you end your transaction. They receive the message "Record not available ... please wait" until the records become available. Because of this, it is important to keep the length of the transaction to a minimum. It is best to end a transaction before you go to lunch.