ADD2LIST.EXE

add2list.exe name-and-path-of-list-file 

complete-name-and-path-of-file-extracted 

complete-name-and-path-of-new-file

optional-seconds-to-wait 

optional-default-directory

optional-command-to-perform

optional-parameter-to-command ...

The first three (3) parameters are strictly for the purposes of maintaining the inuse file. The other parameters facilitate keeping a ‘reference’ copy of the contents of the configuration management tool up to date.

The seconds-to-wait parameter specifies the number of seconds to wait before performing the command, this may be particularly useful for avoiding deadlock situations. Specifying a seconds to wait of other than 0 in a windows environment, forces the del2list command to operate as an asynchronous process (in Unix use the & operator as normal to create an asynchronous process).

Whilst the last four (4) parameters are optional, if you wish to specify a later parameter, you must specify the earlier parameters (e.g., you cannot specify command-to-perform without specifying seconds-to-wait and default-directory, but they may be 0 and .).

The filenames may optionally contain special strings that are replaced by del2list before it writes the filename to the inuse file:

add2list recognises the following options:

Example

add2list h:\inuse  h:\A001.XML g:\src\uform\A001.XML 2 . command.com /c type h:\A001.XML

or

add2list h:\inuse  %cvsroot%\A001.XML :cwd:A001.XML 2 . command.com /c type h:\A001.XML

For more information about the INUSE file please see: