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In article <1992Aug7.130218.16504@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dmeredit@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don Meredith) writes:
> 
> I have been tasked with writing a time keeper program for my company.  My
> question is do I have to do anything special for the program to be able
> to  run on a Novell network?  It is being written in C using Borland C++
> 3.1.  It will open and close files.  Everybody will be able to run it.

Nothing special is needed, I think, but this dependes somewhat on what you
want to do...  A few things come to mind to smoothe things, though:

- Be aware of the file status (do users share the same files?, be prepared
to have one user loged in more than once!, what if the SUPERVISOR runs the
program?  from two stations?).  Try to have the program behave nicely in
all those cases, with an explicit warning/error message.

- In the same line, have all input done in a timed loop, in case this input
locks another user...  (one user goes to lunch leaving the program running
and all others have to wait for him?)

- Of course, the program must be configurable from a single source (imagine
having to change all the user-defined setup files because you moved the
main files to some other location!).

- For special tricks, you might want to read the Novell section in Ralph
Brown's interrupt list.

If you were more precise about the program, you might get more precise
answers, hope this helps,

Markus Fischer    Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva CH    fisher@sc2a.unige.ch