Erik Wachtmeester wrote in a message on Fri, 15 May 1998 at 23:31 to Marc 
Buffet:
 EW> Sure about that? I can't check it right now, but I thought I only
 EW> could tell ArcServe to skip opened files. The problem I described
 EW> appears when a user tries to read from a file that's currently been
 EW> serviced by ArcServe. 
this way it's true what you are telling ... but open files can be backed up
if the deny none option is activated ...
Did yoiu try to set the Shared flag for that file ?
F:\PUBLIIC>FLAG FILE.EXT +Sh
Marc Buffet
[Internet marc.buffet@ibm.net] 
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