[Lazarus] tail on windows

[dmitry boyarintsev]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> Is it really that complicated under windows to open a file shared
> readable?
> Why is an Assign, Close, Assign, Append needed?

You're right! There's no reason for such complexity.
Changing Filemode flag to fmShareDenyNone (or fmShareDenyWrite) is
enough to make the file readable, even if file is created via
Rewrite() function.

thanks,
dmitry