Re: Vista file protection question

Bob Richardson wrote:
> I have some old Pascal coding that Vista is balking at when  'myfile'
> is stored under Program Files. This works fine when the file is stored
> under Do***ents. I'm getting a "File Access Denied" error message.
> 
>    AssignFile(myfile, 'SomeData');
>   Reset(myfile);
> 
> 
>  Of course, it works fine under WinXP.  I do not change this file - it
> is only read. Thus, I thought I could (should) store the file along
> with the EXE file.  Perhaps there is another way to open this file
> read only, but I can't find any do***entation.

Are you sure you're asking for read-only access? What is the value of 
the global FileMode variable? Unless your variable is a TextFile, 
FileMode should be fmOpenRead.

-- 
Rob