Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 20:17:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Bukin <bukinm AT inp DOT nsk DOT su>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Desperately need help with "fopen"
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On 10 Apr 1997, Michael Bukin wrote:

>   filename = (_argc > 1) ? _argv[1] : "test.txt";
>   if (_dos_open (filename, O_RDONLY | SH_DENYNO, &handle))

Could you please see if the same works with `_open' instead of 
`_dos_open' if you use the same sharing flags?

> BTW, Emacs for dos can't open files already opened in Word
> (at least, not on my machine).

I would expect so, since `fopen' calls `open' internally, and Emacs calls 
`open' to read a file.