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From: frimp@mcshh.hanse.de (Frank Heinzius)
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: <9144@mcshh.hanse.de>
Date: 6 May 91 07:56:53 GMT
References: <1991May02.160542.28060@cs.ruu.nl>
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In <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?
]I am using 4dos, and msdos 5.0. and have not tried it with command.com

You must reassign the "filemode" system variable like this:

temp := filemode;
filemode := 0;
reset(read_only_file);
{other file operations}
{...}
close(read_only_file);
filemode := temp;


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