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    Posted: January 04 2018 at 10:28am
I'm curious about the philosophy of WED "read-only" mode.  The main reason that I would use read-only mode is to look at a record without interfering with other processes that may need to read and possibly update that record.

However, I have discovered that WED always issues a READU lock when it reads a record, even if has been told to open a read-only copy.

Is there a reason for locking a record that WED does not allow the user to update?
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Hi Auctor -

Looks like a contradiction in how wED is implemented. The READU happens because the option to use record locking in wED is enabled. It does make sense that read-only would override the locking option, but they are being handled independently. So wED opens the locked record in read-only mode. If another process had locked the record, wED would probably complain, but open the record after confirming to open in read-only mode.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Auctor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2018 at 8:26am
Is there any way to customize that behavior or is it just the way that ATWED32.EXE is coded?  I tried setting KMTCFG field 58 to 1 but it made no difference.
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