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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Vanguard,   
      
   >> IOW, it gets a signal someone tried to open a document with the same   
   >> name it already has, but than blithely ignores al that information.   
   >   
   > There is no "dirty bit" to identify a file has been changed after it has   
   > been loaded   
      
   Why should a "dirty bit" be involved ?   Just throw whatever is in there out   
   and reload the provided file.  Not really rocket science.   
      
   > in any process with a file handle on it.   
      
   Mistake.  As reading this thread about how wordpad (doesn't) deals with its   
   underlying document should have shown you (there is no "handle" it keeps).   
      
   > yes, there is a dirty bit to let the editor there was a change to   
   > prompt you on exit to save changes.   
      
   Second mistake : trying to conflate the files "dirty" bit with the one which   
   signals that the editors contents where changed.  Nasty move.   
      
   > An editor won't know if some other process has changed the file.   
      
   Third mistake.   
      
   That has been brought up multiple times by others and answered.  As I've   
   also told them, thats not what I posted I wanted to see happen.   
      
   And by the away, yes, its very possible for a program to track if a file   
   gets changed.   Some editors use it and will offer the user the option to   
   (re)load the changed file - something that I think has also been mentioned   
   in this thread ...   
      
   > You want cooperating that doesn't exist.   
      
   Fourth mistake.   
      
   And that was told to me (by you or anyone else) ... where ?   
      
   IOW, you *only now* claim it doesn't exist, packed in an accusation for me   
   not knowing it.   Quite a dick move.   
      
   > Wordpad has the ancient and nasty trait of reusing its buffer   
   > if the filespec is the same as before.   
      
   Thanks captain obvious.   Thats what my whole question was/is about.   
      
   > Since the target didn't change, it shows you what it already loaded.   
      
   "Since the targets *NAME* didn't change,"   
      
   There, fixed that for you.   
      
   Don't you think its funnily stupid to see that wordpad remembers the   
   filename, but "forgets" something easy-and-short-to-remember like the files   
   last-modified date/time ?   
      
   > The root of the problem is Wordpad is   
      
   (that it)   
      
   > has no command-line args (other than filespec and /p),   
      
   Nice to see you contradict yourself in a single line. :-)   
      
   > and won't do what you want.   
      
   And thats the only thing I wanted to have input on.   
      
      
   At times you respond as if you have a head on your shoulders, and at other   
   times ... meh.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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