> Sounds simple, doesn't it?  It probably is, but I've been
 > stuffing around with fstream, fopen, open, sopen and share.h
 > and I can't get the stupid cow of a thing to do what it is
 > supposed to.  It either disallows other programs (the same
 > program in another task) from reading the file, or it refuses
 > to write to the file, or refuses to read it, or refuses to
 > read from/write to the file.

 > Is there a better way to share information between tasks?

You might try named pipes.

But even so, file I/O isn't a problem. I have written plenty of software -
both OS/2 and MSDOS - which does so without any problems.  If you would be
more specific in describing your problem (ie. post code), perhaps I could
help.

  regards,
  david

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