filePro® Lockfile Information

filePro® Lockfile Format

The file is 64 bytes long and contains the following information:

Offset Type Contents
0 flag Kill files
1 flag Define files
2 count Define screens
3 count Define output
4 flag Define edits
5 count Define processing
6 flag Expand files
7 flag Batch processing
8 count Inquire, update, add
9 count Index maintenance
10 count Request output
11 thru 60 array Information about indexes
61 count Define capture formats
62 flag Capture data
63 flag Rebuilding freechain

Notes:

"Flag" means that it can only be a "0" or "1" because only one person may be using that function at a time.

"Count" means a number from "0" to "255" and is a count of how many people are in that function at this time.

Index Information

This is a 26 element array (10 demand indexes and 16 automatic indexes) consisting of 2 bytes each.

The first byte is a flag which is set if the index is being created or rebuilt.

The second byte is a count of the number of people using the index.

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