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#Login error

    15-Jan-92 13:51:37
Sb: #28672-#Login error
Fm: Paul J. Burke 74656,2333
To: Bob Goodman 72371,1152
I've encountered a 'file locked' notice a few times, and found a file "drawing.dwk" in the directory. Deleting this file, its usually 128 bytes, gets past the lock situation. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend a system that locks out a single user. This is as stupid as the MicroCADAM system that puts all the drawings in a hidden directory, as hidden files, with coded drawing names, instead of real drawing names. It will also issue random 'file locked' error notices, and refuse access to ANY files on the disk. Fortunately, PCTOOLS can come to the rescue, and delete the hidden lock file, (0 bytes, for whatever reason.) Then things can proceed normally. (Until the next random lock-out.)