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From: howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: multi-user editors???
Message-ID: <8460001@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 89 17:18:54 GMT
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Organization: Ye Olde Salt Mines
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>Do any of y'all know of any full-screen editors that support multiple 
>users editing a single file at one time???  
  >Keith E. Lazarus                     Department of Computer Science

Uh. I'm curious. Why would you WANT more than one person editing the
same file at the same time? How would you keep someone from changing
the same information that another is changing? Who gets the last change?

In DBASEIII+, which allows this, the person who makes the last change
wins. I would expect the same of a multi-user editor. 

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