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From: bass@ecsvax.UUCP (Jeff Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Opening files for shared read in Turbo Pascal
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 21:20:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 21:20:26 1987
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Summary: More "read only" problems with TURBO



I also had a "read only" problem with TURBO Pascal.  I was
using open and reset with the $I- option to detect whether
a file existed or not.  I got errors as expected when the
filename opened did not exist.  I was surprised to find that
I got the same error if the file was marked read-only (as can
be done with various attribute diddling utilites).  In other
words, TURBO cannot open a read only file for read only.
Hmmm...
Jeff Bass
BASS Institute Inc., P O Box 349, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
bass@ecsvax