XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   I don't think Wordpad will work how you want.  When it opens a document,   
   it loads the doc into buffer.  If the target doesn't change, it uses   
   what is in its buffer.  You could change the file itself many times, but   
   Wordpad will still show you the contents of its buffer.  You have to   
   flush the buffer by loading in a new doc even if it is the same file but   
   changed since lasted loaded.  Wordpad's File -> Open menu is not an   
   option since you pick the same target, so it still shows you its current   
   buffer content.  There is no Close in Wordpad to force creating a new   
   buffer, and selecting the same target has Wordpad "facilitate" reduction   
   of resource and enhanced load speed by showing you the buffer it already   
   has for that file.   
      
   As a test using Notepad, I opened it, entered "hello there", and saved   
   to test.txt.  I left that Notepad instance open, so it will continue to   
   show the old contents still in its buffer.  I edited test.txt using   
   Notepad++ (or anything but Notepad) to "out to lunch", and manually   
   saved the change (File -> Save), and exited Notepad++.  I then   
   double-clicked the same test.txt file, and the Notepad instance that   
   opened loaded the current file into its own buffer, so I saw "out to   
   lunch" in the new instance of Notepad, and "hello there" in the older   
   instance of Notepad.  With Notepad, a new instance would load the   
   changed file.   
      
   I did the same test using Wordpad.  On an .rtf file containing "hello   
   there", I opened it in Wordpad.  While the Wordpad window was left open   
   (so it continued to show the contents of its buffer), I edited test.rtf   
   using Notepad++ to change to "out to lunch", and saved manually (if I   
   just close Notepad++ there was no prompt to save changes).  I then   
   opened the changed file in Wordpad.  Nope, the 2nd instance of Wordpad   
   still showed "hello there" instead of "out to lunch".  Almost as though   
   the 2nd instance of Wordpad were reusing the buffer from the 1st   
   instance of Wordpad.   
      
   Does your program have to output to an .rtf file?  Maybe it could   
   generate a .txt file since Notepad will use a new buffer in a new   
   instance of it but Wordpad doesn't.  Or you hit F2 in Explorer on the   
   file to rename from .rtf to .txt.  You don't want to reassign .rtf   
   filetypes to a different editor since that would change the handler for   
   all .rtf files.  Okay, so rename the file to .txt before double-clicking   
   on it.  If you cannot change the program to output to a .txt file   
   instead of an .rtf file, you can force the change yourself by changing   
   the extension.   
      
   Is there really any formatting in the output file by the program that   
   would require RTF, or is it all just plain text?   
      
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