Then you throw in the V suffix to utterly confuse them :-)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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"Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You need to read up on MW :-) W is not a "fallback" mode, as
there is no first attempt to get it M.
> Instead, MW says, in effect, bypass the check for simple read
or write links, only fail if the disk is
> already linked Stable or Exclusive by a user.
OK - I give you that. I accept that there is no first and second
attempt - but the effect is the same.
The number of people that I have met that have no concept of the
difference between M, MR & MW is amazing.
Colin Allinson
Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
