Title: Reading a locked or busy file
Question: There is another article posted here that explains how to do this... but I couldn't get it to work on Win98 with Delphi5, so here's my solution to read from a file that is busy or locked.
Answer:
To use this you need an OpenDialog component, RichEdit component and a BitButton on a form.
procedure TForm1.BitBtn1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
Buffer: string;
Stream: TFileStream;
DataLoader : TStringList;
begin
DataLoader := TStringList.Create;
OpenDialog1.Execute;
Stream := TFileStream.Create(OpenDialog1.FileName, fmShareDenyNone);
SetLength(buffer, Stream.Size);
Stream.Read(Buffer[1], Stream.Size);
DataLoader.SetText(PChar(Buffer));
Stream.Free;
RichEdit1.Text := DataLoader.Text; //this really isn't necessary, just
//used it to 'see' the contents.
end;