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

[Jon Pinkley]

On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 6:10:29 AM UTC-5, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> I'm the author of LCK and would love to find a place to store more
> recent versions... It also works on Itanium now. If there is a demand
> for locks in other modes than exclusive, I'm ready to give it a try.
> 
> -- 
> Marc Van Dyck

The two places that come to mind would be Hunter Goatley's fileserv at ftp.process.com which may be mirrored and Eisner.decus.org, which has a repository of many of the decus tape contents.  You can telnet to eisner.decus.org and read the sys$annouce for how to get a free account there.

For example see ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv.readme
and ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv

Now a question about LCK.  Had you ever seen Ken's LOCK utility before you wrote LCK?  It has a very similar interface, although Ken's doesn't support a programming library to simplify the use of locks.

Ken's is written in Bliss which until it was made available on the freeware disk, was prohibitively expensive.  Pascal is probably better known than Bliss, but it isn't a "popular" language either, and isn't free to use, so you would need to supply at least .obj (and hopefully source).