filePro lockfiles

[John Esak]

Wait a minute.  I *always* got an error when going between versions.  I
could go from pre 5.6 to 5.6, but once the 5.6 lockfile is made, the pre 5.6
binaries will give an error.  Isn't that right?

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
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> m] On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:42 PM
> To: 'FilePro Mailing List'
> Subject: filePro lockfiles
> 
> There has been some discussion again on the list about how 
> 5.6 lockfiles are 
> "incompatible" with 5.0.  While it is true that you cannot 
> run 5.6 and 
> pre-5.6 filePro executables on a given filePro file at the same time 
> (filePro 5.6 will tell you that an older version is using the 
> file, and 
> pre-5.6 gives some other lockfile error which I don't recall 
> at the moment), 
> it was designed to seamlessly let you go back and forth 
> between 5.6 and 
> pre-5.6 versions of filePro.
> 
> If someone has a repeatable scenario where you get a lockfile 
> error when 
> going between versions, contact fpsupport with the details.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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