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In that case, you won't be able to open your file stream via File.Create().
Instead, instantiate it as a FileStream object:

  fs = new FileStream("SomeFile3.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate,
FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.ReadWrite);


Notice that I set the FileShare enum parameter to ReadWrite.

Joe
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"John Fowler" <jfowler@pXoXl.net> wrote in message
news:4153b5ba$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Thanks to all who explained this.
>
> How, then, can I keep 'fs' open and write to it? Or would it be easier
> in code just to close and reopen it?
>
> Thank you.
>
> John F.
>
> Marc Rohloff [TeamB] wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:41:08 -0600, Joe Mayo wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>or (which essentially means):
> >>  FileStream fs = null;
> >>  try
> >>  {
> >>   fs = File.Create("SomeFile3.txt");
> >>  }
> >>  finally
> >>  {
> >>   if (fs != null)
> >>   {
> >>    fs.Close();
> >>   }
> >>  }
> >
> >
> > The generated code is actually  more like:
> >
> >    FileStream fs = File.Create("SomeFile3.txt");
> >   try
> >   {
> >    //
> >   }
> >   finally
> >   {
> >     IDisposable(fs).Dispose;
> >   }
> >