System 7: File Sharing and Multi-user Access to a Document



Article Change History
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09/04/92 - REVIEWED
* For technical accuracy.


Does File sharing let several people access one document simultaneously?

Support for multi-user access to a document depends on the application. All
the major Macintosh database programs support multiple-user access to a
shared data file and many other Macintosh programs are AppleShare-aware to
the point that they also support multi-user access to a single document.
Some applications, like Microsoft Word, let a user open a shared document
as "read-only." This means that other users can also open the same document
as read-only.


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012