another multi-user "solution"?

[Bill]

Why again are you not just using MySQL or SQLite?


On 4/24/05 9:43 AM, "Kurt Kaufman" <kkaufman at snet.net> wrote:

> This morning, while in the shower of course ("Mr. Kaufman, the U.N. has
> decided to elect you Secretary General, on the condition that all of
> your decisions regarding this institution are made whilst you are in
> the shower.") I thought of another possible Rev-only solution to the
> problem of allowing multiple user access to data.
> 
> Originally I had thought of two or more  "anchor" apps that would
> subsequently open one of many data-record stacks.  But instead of
> record-stacks, why not record-text-files? While opening a single text
> file containing all of the records would effectively shut out any other
> users from accessing the data, if that data was divided into separate
> text files, one for each record, any number of users could work on them
> (provided they were working on different records, of course).  Plus,
> there would be the added advantage of easy manual correction should one
> of the records become corrupted somehow.
> 
> My needs here are very basic; the records do not have to interact in
> any way; I don't have to do operations on any of the records in the
> aggregate (else I could see how opening many records successively would
> be cumbersome).
> 
> Before I embark on this option, does anyone see any serious problems
> with this method?
> 
> TIA, Kurt
> 
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