From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> > excepting ones held by file locks for other active sessions
> > of Rhide, assuming more than one session is started.
> 
> File locks? Does DOS have file locks?

Vanilla DOS doesn't, but if you install SHARE.EXE, you can have them.
Windows 3.X installs SHARE, and Windows 9X has VSHARE built-in.  See
library functions `lock' and `_dos_lock' for an interface from C.

I don't have any idea whether RHIDE uses these functions.