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From: ZSYJKAA@WYOCDC1.BITNET (Jim Kirkpatrick 307 766-5303)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  Multiple-access files in VMS
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Date: 4 Aug 88 16:15:37 GMT
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(I sent this reply to the original poster but Rutgers rejected it with
host unknown for unisys.com)

  >From:     cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!csun!mst@RUTGERS.EDU
     [good grief!]
  >Does anyone out there know how to make a file multi-accessible (readwise)
  >in VMS?  There must be a way since I would think that the help file is
  >that way.  Any help is appreciated.
  >
  >Mike Temkin
  >...!{sdcrdcf,hplabs,psivax,ttidca}!csun!mx!mst
     [good grief again!]
  >Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science

You need to be more specific about what made you think it didn't work
in the first place.  What language were you using?  What was the message
you got saying you couldn't?

I will assume, for at least illustration purposes, Fortran.  The answer is
RTFM.  Look at the OPEN statement, READONLY keyword.  That'll do it, I
suspect, since default open is in in/out mode which means only one process
can have the file open.

Jim Kirkpatrick       ZSYJKAA@WYOCDC1   (on BITNET)