Re: Sharing Gnumeric files on a network

["J.M. Maurer" <uwog uwog net>]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 17:24 +0200, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> We might also implement a collaboration framework analog to what exists
> in Abiword.

Yay! In that case you probably would want to steal most of the abicollab
plugin :)

  Marc

> Regards,
> Jean
>
>
> Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 22:26 -0300, Felipe Castro a écrit :
> > 2009/7/14 bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>:
> > > 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 not closed properly.
> >
> > Yes, that's it. And it's not only a simple "handy" feature. It's a
> > vital one, for any work in group over a bunch of files which are
> > located somewhere in a network. I'm using Excel and want to migrate to
> > Gnumeric. But this thing is keeping me away from the changing...
> >
> > So it's not a Windows only problem. This would be useful in any kind
> > of OS. The Vim program gives the following message, when the file is
> > already opened an the internal buffer changed (or when it wasn't
> > closed properly before saving):
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> > Found a swap file by the name ".teste.txt.swp"
> >           owned by: ipe   dated: Tue Jul 14 22:21:30 2009
> >          file name: ~ipe/tmp/Windows/teste.txt
> >           modified: YES
> >          user name: ipe   host name: feo
> >         process ID: 4830
> > While opening file "teste.txt"
> >              dated: Tue Jul 14 22:21:05 2009
> >
> > (1) Another program may be editing the same file.
> >     If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
> >     different instances of the same file when making changes.
> >     Quit, or continue with caution.
> >
> > (2) An edit session for this file crashed.
> >     If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r teste.txt"
> >     to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
> >     If you did this already, delete the swap file ".teste.txt.swp"
> >     to avoid this message.
> >
> > Swap file ".teste.txt.swp" already exists!
> > [O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (D)elete it, (Q)uit, (A)bort:
> > --------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > So, that's my suggestion, don't know if it's too difficult to
> > implement. Anyway, it's really very useful.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Felipe Castro.
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