* david nugent >>> Shane Day  

 >> 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?

 dn> You might try named pipes.

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

Hmm, I would, but I became so annoyed with the thing I typed "deltree
c:\source\bbs\multi" so the code is gone.  I'm going to have another
go at it, and if it doesn't work then, I'll post some code.


Thanks
Shane

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