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James Kilner

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I am doing file access work and would like to be able to
programmatically make the file writeable. At the moment
when I try to write to a Read-Only file I get an error so
I would like to be able to make the file writeable and
still open the file.
I am using the command
Open "my file.txt" For Input As filenumber

Can anyone help please.
J.

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Benoit P.

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dim fiFile as System.IO.FileInfo
fiFile = new System.IO.FileInfo("yourFile")
fiFile.Attributes = System.IO.FileAttributes.Normal

To open a file for writing try that:
dim twFile as System.IO.textwriter
twfile = new System.IO.StreamWriter("yourfile",true) 'true to append

For reading use TextReader and StreamReader.

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Adam Ward

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Hi
You will need a byte array with the contents that you want to write to the file but this should do the trick

Imports System.IO

Dim fs As FileStream
fs = File.Open("c:\demo\demo.txt", FileMode.Open)
fs.Write(YourByteArray, ArrayIndexToStartFrom, MaxNumberOfBytesToWrite)
fs.Close()

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Adam

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	System.IO.File
	System.IO.FileAttributes
	System.IO.FileInfo
	System.IO.FileMode
	System.IO.FileStream
	System.IO.StreamReader
	System.IO.StreamWriter
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