GW> I agree that it's useful, especially as there are no major extensions
 GW> to the MS/PCDOS interface since DOS 3.3, [...]
I'd say that the new file open API introduced in DOS 4.0 is "major".  The 
ability to create a file *and* specify a sharing mode in one atomic operation 
is very useful for LANs.
The only problem is that most DOS C libraries' implementations of fopen() 
have never been updated to use this new function, and still use a CREAT/OPEN 
pair, complete with race conditions.  (The C library that I wrote used the 
DOS 4.0 API, of course.)
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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