Vince Teachout wrote: > Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: >> OK, gang, I've inherited a vertical market app, sort of, that's >> installed all over the place. The system uses a licensing scheme that >> writes a file to one of several locations and then checks against that >> file to ensure that only an allotted number of users are logged on. So >> far, so good. It's been working fine for years. >> >> And now comes Vista, which won't let the app write that file to any of >> its configured locations (Windows system dir, root of C, etc.) It looks >> like the app will have to write to My Documents\User >> > Any chance of changing it to be record based, instead of file based? > i.e. (pronounced "AAIIIIEEEE!!!") add a record when Tom logs in, Add a > record when Sue logs in, Delete the Tom record when Tom logs out, etc, > etc.? (etc pronounced like a dog choking)
That's a possibility, as whatever mechanism is currently used will have to be modified. I'll ask the original developer if there was a reason they went with a file-based semaphore instead of the record-based scenario... Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.