I'm trying to read a growing file with the following code: 
use IO::Handle;
$file = $ARGV[0];
open(INFILE,"< $file");
while(1)
{
  while(<INFILE>)
  {
    print("$_");
    sleep(5);
  }
  INFILE->clearerr(); 
}

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In order to test it, I've been doing an echo abc >> test.log from the dos prompt on NT. This works just fine and my script prints out the new line with "abc" on it.

When I open notepad, wordpad or gvim and try to write to the file, it fails and says the file is in use by another process.

Any ideas why it would be locked for writes when I opened it in read only mode?

This is my first post so don't hurt me!!! :)

Thanks...

In reply to Unable to write to a file opened in read only mode by cgrinder

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