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Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?

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From: Sean Kennedy
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 03 Feb 97 10:24:56 GMT, Alois.Buecherl@terraSat.de (Alois
Buecherl) wrote:

A terrible hack could be upon startup immediately create a file in the
%TEMP% directory.  If the create function returns a 'File exists'
return, otherwise, continue.  

-Sean Kennedy
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From: skennedy@ecs.fullerton.edu (Sean Kennedy)
Subject: Re: How to avoid multiple instances of a program in NT and 95?
Date: 1997/02/04
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