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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Duplicating a lock
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.163917.5837@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:39:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.165453.17302@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar8.005140.24418@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991Mar8.005140.24418@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:
>The easiest way to get a (new) lock on the current directory is to
>Lock("", MODE_OLDFILE);
>i.e. ask for a lock on the null filename.
>-- 
>	-Colin

	I was after the non DOS library way of doing it.