Re: Sharing Gnumeric files on a network

[bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, bill lam wrote:
> I might not remember correctly, excel (application) changes and flush
> a few bytes in the excel file when opening it. If another user opens
> that file again using excel, excel will issue a warning to the second
> user that the file is read only.  This does not depend on file system
> lock.  There are cases where an excel file is incorrectly flagged as
> readonly if that file was closed properly.

 readonly if that file was not closed properly.

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