From: Radical NetSurfer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Detecting File in Use? Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:44:50 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT supernews DOT com Lines: 21 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com How does one know if a file is ALREADY in USE by some application BEFORE any actual attempt to open or access that file? My Builder application seems to be acting very irratically because its trying to access a file which is already opened by another application -- so I need to be able to detect that.... would there be a try...catch for fopen or FileOpen for such issues? THANKS! email: radsmail AT juno DOT com http://members.tripod.com/~RadSurfer/ Join us on Yahoo at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BorlandCPPBuilder for informal discussions about all versions of C++Builder... [Computer programming for Windows 95, and Console32] (you must be a Yahoo member to join)