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Possible to delete open files
Name: Joe Prytz Date: May 30, 2001 at 06:14:42 Pacific
Comment:
When a 16bit application have a file open, it's possible to delete the file (even the application itself). This is not happening from 32bit apps. The phenomenon occur both on local disk and network drives (even other people in the NW can delete). Anybody know anything about this ? Solutions ?
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