Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:02:40 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS file access attributes in _open
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> From: "Tom Hunt" <thunt1 AT falcon DOT lhup DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:39:12 -0500
> 
> I'm using the _open function to open files in an editor program I'm working
> on.  In the DJGPP docs, it lists a second parameter, int attrib, which I'm
> guesing tells it what the read-write access is.  Could someone tell me what
> values do what with that parameter?

The documentation of _open has a link to _dos_open.  If you follow
that link, you will find the info you are looking for.