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Hi!
I am in charge of maintaining a rather small network of 11 Mac II VI and a
Quadra 960 Fileserver. As i was know it works quite well on
Novell-Netware-Servers with DOS machines I thought it would be a good idea
to place all software packages on the server and make them available for
any user. We are using

Aldus Persuasion 2.1 (2 Licences)
Aldus Freehand 3.1 (2 L.)
Microsoft Word 5 (5)
Filemaker Pro (5)
Statview 4 (2)

What I CAN do is putting e.g. BOTH copys of Persuasion onto the server and
then make them both accessible to the users. BUT, because the software
checks the network for running copys of the program with identical serial
number, it is impossible to launch the program twice (which in principle is
absolutely o.k.), but I don't want the user to have always to check ALL
versions of a program, before he finds one to work with.
Distributing all packages to all workstations is no solution, because the
identical problem arises.
What I am thinking of is a kind of launching program, which, when called,
checks all existing versions of a program on the fileserver weather it is
already in use (e.g. by supressing the error message and evaluating some
kind of return code) and then ending in starting the application program or
in giving a message (e.g. which user(s) are working with that program).
Have YOU had similar problems?
What is YOUR solution?

Thanks for answering,

and don't miss DINNER FOR ONE !!! (Happy New Year!!)

Michael Gold (gold@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de)