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Topic: Doing 2 things at once with a text file

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Doing 2 things at once with a text file
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 8:12pm

If say 100 people are downloading a large text file, could the text file still be opened and modified during the download? Or would the changes wait in a queue until downloads have finished?

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 07 April 2005 at 4:13am

IIRC the file is locked while it's being downloaded