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Reading locked files

Subject:Reading locked files
Posted by:"Mikael Lenfors" (mika..@lenfors.se)
Date:Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:04:14

Hello!

I have a problem reading "locked" files. I want to monitor some logfiles
created by another program that I bought. The logfiles are opened from the
program and locked. If i try to open the logfile with WordPad I get an error
message, but if I open it with Notepad it works! This means it is possible!
So far I tried to open it with the following code (found on a newsgroup)

    Exclusive:  FILE;

    System.FileMode := fmShareExclusive;
    AssignFile (Exclusive, 'filename');
    Reset (Exclusive, 1);   {Read 1-byte at a time}

But it still returns I/O error 32.

Any ideas?

regards, Mikael

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