RE: Newbie questions about Advanced Server
From: Barratt, Chris (FMC) (Chris.Barratt_at_fmc.sa.gov.au)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:54:57 +1030
> I still can't get Advanced Server to create a file with the next
> version number, when a file is saved. Any other ideas out there?
>
Hi Michael,
When we originally setup Adv. Server here I also wanted to achieve the same
thing. I put in a call to support and this was the reply to the question of
can it be done...
"Nope. Microsoft SMB does an OPEN/TRUNCATE on a file so it's not up to
VMS. Also a deletion would delete all versions. There's no way from
Microsoft to specify just delete the last version. Strangley enough it
was in version 4 of PATHWORKS but Microsoft change the security method
and that was the end of that."
To get around this, we created a very basic checkout/checkin system for our
source code which copied the source to a "work" directory when checked out.
A read-write share is set up on that directory so that PC editors can be
used to modify the code if that is the developers preference. When the code
is completed, it is checked back in to the source directory and a new
version is created. Note that we also make a read-ionly share available on
the source code directory so that the last version of the code can be viewed
from the PC but not changed.
This setup also ensures that all source files don't get accidentally deleted
by some errant Windows program.
Cheers,
Chris
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