Hi George,

Thank you for the reply. I actually got the code snippet from Ed's article for the CreateEvent() function. I was just wondering if this is also applicable to files aside from executables. I'll probably just use an FOPEN() wrapper for this.

>>Hi all,
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>>Given a filename, can I use the CreateEvent() Win32API function to check if the file is opened or not? Is there another way, VFP or Win32API, to check if a file is open? Example: myExcel.xls is currently open using Excel started normally or thru VFP. Can I check if the file is open?
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>Ed Rauh did some work with this. Check his contribution summary and you'll find information on how to do this.