!Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Hobbs
This has been bugging me for a while but its very minor... !NetSurf.!Run is always open whilst running NS. This means my backup (to propagate new versions to another machine via USB memory) complains. I know the reason is the NS-specific font removal obey commands for when NS exits. I just wonde

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:55:34 +0100 Mike Hobbs wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while but its very minor... > > !NetSurf.!Run is always open whilst running NS. This means > my backup (to propagate new versions to another machine via > USB memory) complains. Why not fix the backup tool to

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread David J. Ruck
Rob Kendrick wrote: Why not fix the backup tool to not complain? :) Because that means the file will probably never be backed up. Not so much of an issue for an application's !Run, but bad news if it's user data. A company I worked for many years ago found out this out the hard way when the

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:56 +0100 "David J. Ruck" wrote: > A company I worked for many years ago found out this out the hard way > when their Exchange server crashed, the backup tool had been silently > ignoring the Exchange database file always being open, and hadn't > actually backed it up

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread James Bursa
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:55:34 +0100 Mike Hobbs wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while but its very minor... > > !NetSurf.!Run is always open whilst running NS. This means > my backup (to propagate new versions to another machine via > USB memory) complains. > > I know the reason is the NS

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread John Williams
In article <20100712163547.429c8...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net>, Rob Kendrick wrote: > Also, I forget: does RISC OS not allow files to be opened read-only > multiple times? It does, as Ian Hamilton's CloseIt can testify. John

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread Tony Moore
On 12 Jul 2010, Mike Hobbs wrote: > This has been bugging me for a while but its very minor... > > !NetSurf.!Run is always open whilst running NS. This means my backup > (to propagate new versions to another machine via USB memory) > complains. Maybe I misunderstand the problem, but why not quit

Re: !Run always open

2010-07-12 Thread John Tytgat
In message <20100712163547.429c8...@trite.i.flarn.net.i.flarn.net> Rob Kendrick wrote: > Also, I forget: does RISC OS not allow files to be opened read-only > multiple times? In case you mean FileSwitch specifically, I don't think it imposes any restrictions on opening multiple read an