Hi All,

I was just wondering something, as I've run into a slight bump-in-the-road in
one of my programs.

What I'm doing, is reading the Mystic log files to obtain information for
various reports. On my Windows system, which is running fsxNet hub 4, I've
noticed that I'm getting errors while trying to read the mis.log file. The
program is unable to open the file based on permissions...

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Project rcsnodepoll raised exception class 'RunError(5)'

In file 'rcsnodepoll.pas' at line 174:
reset(fmislog);

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Then I'll get:

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Project rcsnodepoll raised exception class 'EInOutError' with message:
Access denied

In file 'rcsnodepoll.pas' at line 174:
reset(fmislog);

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When run from a command line, I'm getting: 'File handling error occurred.
Details: Access denied'.

My question, does Windows handle file permissions differently than Linux? I
can run this all day long on the Linux system with no problems. It just when
I try on the Windows system that I start having issues.

Here is also a snippet of the code that includes line 174:

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If FileExists(MysticLogs+'mis.log) then
Begin
  Try
  AssignFile(fmislog,MysticLogs+'mis.log');
  reset(fmislog);                           //This is line 174
  except
    On E: EInOutError do begin
      writeln('File handling error occurred. Details: ',E.Message);
      ProgramHalt;
    end;
  end;
end
else
begin
  writeln('mis.log not found. Exiting...');
  ProgramHalt;
end;

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I'm guessing that Mystic is keeping the files locked, so it can keep writing
to them. I just don't have any issues with this under Linux...

What I will probably have to do, is make a copy of the log files, read them,
then delete the copies, if Windows is the OS. Is there a better way of doing
this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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