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From: RLambour@massey.ac.nz (Bob Lambourne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Turbo Pascal / wanted: patch for reading from READONLY drives
Message-ID: <1017@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 25 Sep 90 05:55:01 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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I'm working in Turbo Pascal 5.0 in a PC-NFS enviroment, and need to read
files on a network drive that is mounted READONLY. Currently, RESET's on
such files return Dos error 5 (File Access Denied), implying that Turbo
Pascal is trying to open the file READ/WRITE.

I've been told that a one byte patch to deal with this problem/bug was
recently posted, probably to this newsgroup, but I haven't been able to
locate it in our archives. I would be very grateful if someone who has
this at their finger tips could email it to me or post it as
appropriate.

Thanks.