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

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From: Amol Deshpande
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <32f6d5ca.86355796@news.ecs.fullerton.edu>, 
skennedy@ecs.fullerton.edu says...
>
>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

you might be better of creating a named mutex that the program tries to 
accquire on startup.

-amol
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Date: 1997/02/05
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