This is related to another thread and got a good suggestion by Dragan to use FILETOSTR() function.

So basically I'm using this function to copy the contents of a file to a string. The thing is that this file is the customer list used by an application, so it's very critical that I abide by it's rules to open this file. In the documentation these are the pre-requisites to opening the file by an outside application.

1) File Handles must be used
2) Should be opened with
a. Inheritance Flag Set - This says the file is private to the current session
b. Sharing Mode - Sharing mode should be set to Deny None.
c. Access - Access Mode should be set for Read/Write access.

What does FILETOSTR() do when it comes to these rules?

I could just take the chance and see if there's a problem which I don't see happening but the system using this file is very critical so I can't afford to take the chance.

Thanks.