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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal / wanted: patch for reading from READONLY drives
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.101611.26464@uwasa.fi>
Date: 25 Sep 90 10:16:11 GMT
References: <1017@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1017@massey.ac.nz> RLambour@massey.ac.nz (Bob Lambourne) writes:
>
>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.

Before you try to patch anything first see if the following helps:
  FileMode := 0; 
It certaily works without a hitch for non-network environments. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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