exiting/closing programs without updating modification date and time stamp

I am working with medical components and once we have a controlled test method we need to lock the program from any modification including updating date and time stamp. Quit still updates date and time in PC DMIS. When you exit in INSPECT does it update date and time stamp? Anyway, to do it in PC DMIS?

Peter Martignacco over 1 year ago in reply to Neil Challinor

Can you guide me to where this setting is located. I don't see it anywhere in the documentation.
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Neil Challinor over 1 year ago

Peter Martignacco

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Can you guide me to where this setting is located. I don't see it anywhere in the documentation.
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Neil Challinor over 1 year ago in reply to Neil Challinor

See my response in comment #11
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Peter Martignacco over 1 year ago in reply to Neil Challinor

Thank you for your help.
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Rondog over 1 year ago
I noticed this behavior with PC-DMIS. The problem is with PC-DMIS and not from the OS as suggested earlier.

PC-DMIS programs are stored as an OLE2 file system. Basically this is a single file that contains its own file system. It is the same stuff used by older versions of MS Office (doc, xls, ...) and probably many other programs that use this storage system. If you open a PC-DMIS program using an OLE2 file viewer you will see something like this for the file system:

Root ├── CADPREVIEWIMAGE ├── CGDISPDATA ├── PARTPROG ├── SUBROUTINES └── TEMPLATES └── 1 ├── MODS └── NAME 3 directories, 6 files

I ran a few other tests and noticed that PC-DMIS opens the programs as Read-Write when it really should open programs as Read-Only. That likely triggers automatic changes to the file system even if nothing intentionally is written to it.

I suggest you file this as a bug report.
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WilliamL over 1 year ago in reply to Rondog

I am interested in viewing these files in the OLE2 format, is there a readily accessible software online? Or do I need to use Python/scripting to view them in this structure?
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Peter Martignacco 11 months ago in reply to constadin

What version are you using? Even when I set it to make a local copy to run. It gives me this error. Interestingly once I turn off the read only it still gives me this error including the one in PC-DMIS unless I make a new copy of the file with read only off.
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