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>I'm trying to read a file as soon as it is free from being written to by another application. Any ideas on how to do this? Thank you.
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You can use FOPEN() function to check if a file has been released by another program

lnFileHandle = FOPEN('myfile.txt',12)  
IF lnFileHandle < 0  
	* Cannot open file 
ELSE  
	* File is created. Let's use it
	=FCLOSE(lnFileHandle)  
ENDIF