checkout files simultaneously in perforce

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Published on 2010-03-19T15:38:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 15:41 UTC
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In CVS we cant check out the files simultaneously. Can anybody tell ....whether in perforce can we checkout files simultaneously?

And i heard about locks on the files. Before merging the file do we need to have a lock on them in perforce?

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