Re: File Already Open error

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:08:56 +0200

If you know what program is the culprit, then you should be able to
terminate it "remotely".
I would advice against it, though.

A better solution (IMO) is to catch the fact and present the user with the
info.
Even if the user doesn't have any other option than go to "settings" and
kill the program - or open another document instead.

If you had the option of writing to the file even when told not to, all
sorts of bad things could happen, so be glad that you can't.

/Keld Laursen

"JamesL" <forgeddaboudit@spamblock.duh> wrote in message
news:Z1cXc.603$W_5.424@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> I have a program I wrote that occasionally gets the error File Already
Open
> when trying to write to a file.
>
> I have determined that the user has opened the file in another program
such
> as Pocket Word and exited, but handheld working the way they do, did not
> really exit but instead threw the program to the background. So the file
> relay is open in another program.
>
> Is there a way to check for the file being open in another program and
force
> it to close, or ignore the fact and write to it anyway?
>
> James Lysaght
>
>

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