Re: rebuild -h on win95 / sharing violation
Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Thu, 23 May 1996 17:19:46 -0700
- <w2jc@ritz.mordor.com> wrote:
|On Thu, 23 May 1996 02:19:13 -0700 in yarn.list article about:
| 'rebuild -h on win95 / sharing violation'
|Gary H <garyh@sco.COM> wrote:
|
|} I'm trying to rebuild my news database with "rebuild -h" and "rebuild -o",
|} but all I get is "sharing violation". "Retry? Abort? Fail?" I'm running
|} under win95. Tried it under DOS and got the same thing.
|
|A sharing violation means that some other program has the file 'open'
|-- or, failed or forgot to close it when the program ended!
|
|Try rebooting, press F8 as soon as the 'loading Windows 95' message
|appears, and pick 6 from the menu. This will eliminate all the Windows
|stuff and leave you at the dos prompt. If no other program has run yet,
|there should be no files open. Run the rebuild from the dos prompt at this
|time.
I shutdown to MS-DOS with win95 and still got the msg.
I even moved the file to a different name and cp'ed it to news.dat and
still the same problem.
Gary