Hi

Our client uplaods files into a DOS PC. A FoxPro application copies files from the DOS machine into another folder. The upload connection is slow and usually files are quite large. I do not want to copy a file while it is still being uploaded. I tried FOPEN() with read-write unbuffered option hoping that it will fail while the file is being uploaded, but it doesn't. To confirm this, I opened a text file on my local drive using Notepad, and I was able to open it using FOPEN() and I was also able to write into it using FWRITE()! (while it was still open in Notepad).

Is there a way in FoxPro to findout if a text file is open by any Windows application?

Thanks.