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From: cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multiple users under AppleShare??
Message-ID: <673@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 17:20:08 GMT
References: <90232.164125DN5@psuvm.psu.edu> <1277.26d16a83@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <1277.26d16a83@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>Why can't
>you unconditionally multi-launch an application on a read-only volume,
>regardless of whether it's marked "Shared" or not? It's not going to
>make any difference to the application code, no matter how badly it's written.

A multi-launch app has to worry about things like include making sure 
that temporary file names you create are unique per each user, and so on.
That's why the default is to prevent multi-launch.

--Cy--
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