Gordon, INET:gwatts@fnal.gov > I'm running 1.03/04 on WindowsNT 4.0 (Service Pack 3). At the moment I >have to restart root each time I alter the macro file. Yuck. Any help would >be great! >Interesting. I've been using VC++ 5.0 to edit root macro files (nice syntax >coloring, etc.) and it does refuse to save a file after it has been opened >by root. However, if I use notepad it works just fine. Odd; it was as if >some sort of lock was established by root that wasn't really a write >lock... or the two systems are writing invisible/temp files (I couldn't >fine anything) that collide? >Well, I'm using notepad now, but I would really like to be able to go back >to VC++... :-) I guess some security feature of NT has something to do with your problem. I'm not seeing problem with my Windows-NT4.0 Workstation. Maybe Valery can give you better advice. >BTW, I see large numbers of root temp files in my temp directory; they are >all numbered. Besides the observation that this seems to be an inefficient >way of handling commands (wouldn't it be better if it remained in memory, >never written to the disk?), do they ever get deleted by ROOT when root is >done? It dosen't look like it... There is some historical reason why it uses file to handle commands. But anyway, ROOT/CINT removes the temp files automatically. The only case they remain is when ROOT/CINT crashes in the middle of processing macro. Or possibly due to some problem , it can not remove the temp files. Anyway, it is recommended to straight out above problem first. Masaharu Goto
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