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Daniel.Webb@p0.f7.n391.z1.fidonet.org (Daniel Webb) writes:

>    I have used different versions of MS-DOS for many years now, but I have 
>never had this error before:

>Sharing Violation Error Reading Drive C
> Abort, Retry, Fail

>This happened when I tried to delete a file that had the same attributes as 
>the rest of the files in the directory, and I was able to delete the rest of 
>the files.
>  The difference was that this file was created by a DES encryption program.
> DESQview, X00.sys (communications driver), and Shield (virus protection) 
>were all in memory.  I was able to delete the file with any other program
>such as PcTools, but not with the DOS delete command.
>  If Fail was entered after the error it said "Access denied".  Also,
>the program list said "Access Denied".  Again, checking with both Norton 
>Util and PcTools, there was no read-only bit.

>  Anybody got a suggestion?
>  Could this be the side effects of a virus?  
> 

I think it is not an error within DOS, but, on the contrary, a
programming/user error. In order to delete a file, you have to have
exclusive access to it. Perhaps the encryption prog opened the file
with sharing mode SH_DENYRW or something, and it wasn't closed, yet.
If other programs allow deleting of a locked file, they are broken.

This has nothing to do with the read-only bit. 

Wolfgang Strobl
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