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Subject: re: writing readable files
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 12:59:20 EDT
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From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA


Ah!  I distinctly remember being able to write readable files, and now
both of you have reminded me how.  Unfortunately, I'd really like to
protect the file against other writers.  Unless RMS rejects subsequent
opens with less sharability, it would seem that the log file writer
would end up out in the cold if a casual writer, like a text editor,
came along and read the file without any sharability options.  Does RMS
reject such opens?  The manual says nothing about it.  If it does, I
guess I can put up with other programs, like multiple invocations of
the same program, writing the same log file at the same time, although
this isn't really desirable.

Also, the manual says

	RMS supports file sharing for relative files, for indexed
	files, and for sequential files with 512-byte fixed-length
	records.

Does this just mean that the support for other sequential files is only
half ass?