Author: F. Huber
Date: 01:31:08 06/29/04
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On June 29, 2004 at 02:27:26, Tony Werten wrote: ... >>your idea with writing to a file I´ve already tried more than a year ago >>with Chest, but since this is not a ´file of record´ but a simple ´text file´, >>this method didn´t work - Windows did NOT allow both processes to access >>such a text file at the same time! :-( > >Yes, it does. I use it at my work for some temperature data logging. One >application logs in a file on the network, several other can display it. ( the >idea was that you can watch that data at any place in the network ). It is >written in Delphi. > >use "fileopen(filename,fmopenreadwrite or fmsharedenynone);" for the writer > >and use "fileopen(filename,fmopenread or fmsharedenynone);" for the reader. > >I'll have a look later at your original problem, though this might solve it >already. Since the ´writer´ is Popeye itself (a EXE program that I can´t and don´t want to change and recompile), your hint will not work! Probably Popeye doesn´t open his output file with ´read/write/shared´ access. Regards, Franz.
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