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Check if a file is in use
Name: conduit4 Date: July 21, 2003 at 07:00:35 Pacific OS: W2K CPU/Ram: Na
Comment:
Basically I have several batch files on different machines running a command and appending the output to a text file on a remote server. However, these are run at about the same time causing a conflict. These batch files have the same exact code and do the same exact thing. I need a way to check if the text file is in use so the program can wait until it is freed up to append to the file. Is there a way I can do this? I just need something to return a true if it is being written to for example.
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