"Really Learned How to Do It")
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>As for telling if B is in use, trap any error message when trying to USE B exclusively. Either the command works or you get an error message and can cause the user to exit gracefully.
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>HTH
>Barbara


Barbara

As always thanks for your advice; I will print from the temp file.
Is there a built in method of file lock checking.. is if flock()?

As for "Really Learned..." I think im STILL in the before stage. ;)

Chris