-----Original Message----- From: Peter Vreman Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 01:14 To: Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]RE: filemode info for fpc docn - was w2000 file opening > It'd be best if we could have something that's o/s independent... but I > accept, based on the comments, that this might be difficult (see my 0.001 > euro worth below). Until we can do this tho' my main reason for raising this > is to simply document what the choices are for each o/s...& I guess that > isn't too difficult. > > Maybe instead of trying to adapt things we could just have a normal open (0 > as at present) and a 'try to open whatever eg whether file locked or not' > value eg as another variable say called, say, force_open, (eg 1) which are > same value for all o/s & wouldtherefore be portable...Eg for win32 this > could translate to the current filemode vals of 0 and $40, for linux > whatever. If users want more sophisticated behaviour we'd tell users to use > the appropriate o/s dependent filemode values directly... Why do we need a new way? The current filemode values all support opening modes correctly. The only missing thing for easier accessing are the fm<Mode> constants in the system unit. I don't have tp here so i can't check the tp7 rtl for it. For delphi/kylix they are defined in Sysutils