MT> Can someone please tell me the best way to open a file (shared) is
 MT> c++ I am using fsopen and then attaching that to a c++ fstream..
You could just open the thing as an fstream and supply the
appropriate parameters to the open call (or in the constructor
call).
For example:
fstream f;
f.open("filename", ios::binary, filebuf::sh_read);
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