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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> You are asking VCL questions in a Win32 API newsgroup.  FileOpen() is a
VCL
> function.  CreateFile() is the Win32 API for opening/creating files.
>
My perception is that VCL are something present on the IDE componet palette,
which can be drag-n-drop on a form and provide P(roperties)M(ethods)E(vents)
interface for users.  And they are OO to begin with, that is, the user has
to instantiate an object to work with them.  BCB(Delphi) File I/O do not
have object to operate.  This is different with MFC's CFile class.

>
> FileOpen() always opens the file at the beginning of the file.  You would
> then have to seek to the end of the file via FileSeek() after opening it.
>
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?

Regards,
Patrick