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Sean Ryan

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Java.io Posted: Nov 10, 2005 12:41 PM
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Can anyone tell is there a way of reading from a file that is being processed by another program.

This program saves its information to a .txt file and I want to be able to access it while the program is writing to this text file.

I want to be able to get this text for my only application.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Sean


Matthias Neumair

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Re: Java.io Posted: Nov 15, 2005 2:13 AM
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If the other program really writes into this file and does not just write into a buffer and only writes to the file when closing it, there should be no problem at all.
It definitively won't work if the other program writes to a buffer.

If you want to get the changes in real-time, that's another story. Then you have to create for example a timer wich checks the time the file was modified last. If this time is different then the last time you checked re-read the whole file and check for differences.

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