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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Find File?
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.173849.15825@uwasa.fi>
Date: 15 Feb 91 17:38:49 GMT
References: <1129@tesla.njit.edu> <91042.205829SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1991Feb15.112843.13779@cs.eur.nl>
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In article <1991Feb15.112843.13779@cs.eur.nl> reino@cs.eur.nl writes:
>In <91042.205829SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (John G. Spragge) writes:
>
>>Regarding a question about how to check and see if a file exists:
:
>2.	the file is not found if it's a read-only file on a network
>	drive. This is because untyped files (and any other non-text files)
>	are opened in update mode by reset( .. ).
:

Have you checked what is the effect of FileMode on net files.  I
pose view this in the format of a quiestion, because I have not
dealt with net files, but on the other hand the value of the
FileMode variable counts on local files. 

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