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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP error while opening R/O files
Keywords: r/o turbo pascal 6.0 borland files opening error
Message-ID: <1991May3.041834.18631@uwasa.fi>
Date: 3 May 91 04:18:34 GMT
References: <1991May02.160542.28060@cs.ruu.nl>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1991May02.160542.28060@cs.ruu.nl> ajbanck@cs.ruu.nl (Arent Banck) writes:
>Using Turbo Pascal 6.0, I wanted to open a file witch was 
>write protected. I used RESET to open the file, but ended here
>with a error saying I couldn't open a file.
>Why can't I open the file? And is there a way to open it?
:

You first have to set FileMode as 0 from its default value of 2 in
order to be able to read a readonly file.  The information is in the
manual (at least for 5.0), but then it is pretty well hidden. 

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