Files question
Dinu C. Gherman
gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Thu Jul 13 10:46:41 EDT 2000
sergio wrote:
>
> I'm working in winNT Server 4.0.
> How can i know if a file is open by other apllication, in order to
> wait till the file is free
Have you tried just reading a few bytes and catch the
IOError if there is any (supposed you know the file
does exist)? Just an (untested) idea...
Dinu
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