Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!columbia!cs!fox From: fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: multi-user editors....... Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 89 14:10:38 GMT References: <8583@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Columbia University Computer Science Lines: 12 In-reply-to: lazarus@cs.odu.edu's message of 21 Apr 89 05:34:45 GMT It may be true that there are no editors that support multiple people editing the same file at the same time, but there is a tool that supports the concurrent editing of even more general data objects, and it is called...... A DATABASE! You may want to look at the database literature if you are planning on implementing such an editor. David Fox fox@cs.columbia.edu