Getting ROOT to release its hold on a macro file after a ".X" command

Gordon Watts (gwatts@fnal.gov)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:30:51 -0500

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Hi,
I'm developing a macro for root. I write it, I want to run it, edit it,
run it again, etc. To run it I'm using the ".X" command: ".X
make_root_from_greg.c("test_file.root")" Currently the file is a dummy.
After that worked, I modified the file but found I could not save it: it
appears that ROOT is maintaining a lock on the file.
I tried the .U (unload) command but it always gave an error that the file
was not loaded. gROOT->Reset(); didn't seem to work either. And ".reset"
errors saying "Sorry, cannot reset interpreter".

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!

Cheers,
Gordon.

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