[Info-vax] Ken Coar's OpenVMS Lock utility sources are available on Sourceforge.

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Fri Nov 6 11:36:02 EST 2020


On 2020-11-05 08:03:00 +0000, Jon Pinkley said:

> In 1998, Ken Coar submitted the LOCK utility to the DECUS VAXSIG tape.
> ...

FWIW...

There've been a few other DLM-from-DCL utilities available over the 
years, too. Here are two more:

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/lck/freeware_readme.txt
http://mail.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax92b/netlock/aaareadme.txt

More than a few other apps use lock files for this purpose, as that 
tends to be somehwat more portable. And that approach can work from 
DCL, too.


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