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HOW TO: open a file for "read" that is already open ...

Thread starter CraigK
Start date Jul 16, 2002

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Jul 16, 2002

CraigK

Specifier/Regulator

... by another app for "write"?

I have used tools that can open files that are exclusively opened by other tools. I need to be able to read a file even though it is being written by another app.

Can someone point me in the direction of how to do this?

thanks much!