Dos Library
Andy;
Last weekend I read a conversation between you and some other person
dealing with the DOS library, it appeared that you really knew what you
were doing. Therefore, if you don't mind I have a question for you. I have
noticed that MODE_READWRITE of the Open() call in the dos library works
differently in 2.04 than it did for 1.3. In 1.3 it was simply an exclusive
access version of MODE_OLDFILE. With 2.04 MODE_READWRITE works exactly
like MODE_OLDFILE except that it will create the file if it doesn't already
exists. With MODE_OLDFILE the file must already exist. The way it is now
I have no way of opening an existing file with exclusive access like I
could with 1.3. My question is, why was a documented mode changed, or is
the change a bug. If the change was deliberate then it seems to me that a
fourth mode should have been created instead of changing an existing one.
If you could enlighten me I sure would appreciate it.
Ed