XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   "R.Wieser"  wrote:   
      
   > I've got a program which generates a wordpad document, which I than   
   > open by double-clicking it.   
      
   No such thing as a Wordpad filetype.  Do you mean an RTF (Rich Text   
   Format) file, so you can have formatting since text doesn't?  Is there   
   any formatting in the file (i.e., is it just a text file you could open   
   in Notepad)?   
      
   Other programs can open an RTF file, like Word, LibreOffice, and even   
   Wordpad.  RTF is not solely a "Wordpad document".   
      
   > The problem is that when the document is open and I re-generate the   
   > document and double-click it I still see the old contents.  To see   
   > the new contents I have to close the old, still-open document first.   
      
   You can't get your "program" to timestamp its output file, like   
   file_yymmddhhss (year, month, day, hour, seconds)?  Then Wordpad would   
   have a different target to load instead of failing to open a locked   
   file. You have a file handle with write state since you already have it   
   opened for write in Wordpad.  Wordpad is an editor, not a viewer.   
      
   The "program" should not be stepping atop an existing file (that it   
   created before) without a prompt asking for you to grant it to   
   overwrite.  At the prompt, if properly coded, the program should allow   
   you to specify a different filename.  What happens when the program   
   attempts to write to the same file, but it is locked (another process   
   has write access on the file, like an editor)?  A write-locked file for   
   one process can still be read by another process, but other-process   
   writes should be blocked to prevent yanking away a document on which you   
   are currently working.   
      
   > Question: Is there a way to override this behaviour using a   
   > command-line argument ? Even just having two document windows open   
   > would be an improvement.   
      
   The only command-line argument I've heard of for wordpad.exe,   
   notepad.exe, and write.exe (other than a filespec) is /p which is   
   somehow used for printing.   
      
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