<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hello Chris Warrington,</DIV> <DIV>Thanks I'll look into that. I agree, it is off scheme.</DIV> <DIV>Jos Koot</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=chrisw@rice.edu href="mailto:chrisw@rice.edu">Chris Warrington</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jos.koot@telefonica.net href="mailto:jos.koot@telefonica.net">jos koot</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=david.gurvich@verizon.net href="mailto:david.gurvich@verizon.net">David Gurvich</A> ; <A title=plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu href="mailto:plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu">plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:40 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [plt-scheme] file lock</DIV> <DIV><BR>jos koot @ 2006-12-19 1:24:06 PM<BR>"[plt-scheme] file lock" <mid:002701c723a3$405fa580$2101a8c0@joskoot></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> MsWord realy locks its open files from being write-accessed by other<BR>> applications. This would be rather convenient. But I cannot figure<BR>> out how MsWord does this locking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Going a little non-PLT-Scheme here...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'd take a look at the LockFile, UnlockFile, and CreateFile WIN32 API<BR>calls. You should be able to use them with foreign.ss. You may need to<BR>create a new port type to do this locking nicely.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- <BR>Chris Warrington <<A href="mailto:chrisw@rice.edu">chrisw@rice.edu</A>></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>