[Babase] More PsionLoad Questions

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Mon Jun 18 12:23:54 EDT 2007


That sounds good to me, I can't see us hopping back to a file a redoing 
it after having done one in the middle. And I also can't see us stopping 
in the middle and switching users. That sounds like an appropriate fix!

:)thanks Karl

Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> Hey Karl,
>>    While uploading yesterday, Leah and I came up with a new list of
>> questions, comments, concerns about Psion load. See below.
>>
>> 1. When we upload a file twice, there is no warning, or block against
>> it. (We found out the hard way :-P) Is there a way to have the system
>> prevent that?
>
> There's always a way.  :-)
>
> I could keep a database of the names of files uploaded successfully
> and never allow the same file name twice.  This seems a little
> excessive. (And we didn't do it in foxpro either.)
>
> I could remember the name of the last file successfully uploaded
> and not allow that filename to be uploaded until a file with
> a different name is uploaded successfully.  This would be on
> a per-person-logged-in and across-all-(babase custom)-programs
> basis.  How does that sound?  Do you have a better idea?
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Lacey Maryott
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