>>>It's not just the locking, there is continual access of the exe as new components are requested. Each DO FORM "extracts" the scx from the exe.
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>>Sure does, but doesn't have to attempt to lock the block, check with others who have already requested it whether their buffers are dirty etc etc. This difference meant a lot on those slow coax networks back then.
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>Yep that's true. My point was that not having the exe on the local pc would stop the locking too. :)

Sure - this was a stopgap measure before we decided to not write a loader but tell the customer to finally drop those mastodons and buy some cheap 386 :).