Re: File I/O

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:17

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Patrick Wong wrote:

>Thanks.  To ask more specifically, FileOpen() can open an existing file with
>desired access mode.  However, when one has to open a *NEW* file, the
>FileCreate() does not have such access mode to select.  Do I have to create
>it by FileCreate(), then FileClose(), and then FileOpen() again to allow the
>file to work in the desired fashion?

That sounds a lot like the bad old days of Basic, where it would
complain to the user if the program tried to delete a file that wasn't
there, so we would do Open/Close/Kill/Open.
Today, it should be enough to just delete the file before creating it.
(Or use an API that allows it, such as CreateFile)

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