[DUG] Renaming file in use

[Jeremy Coulter]

I just used the "RenameFile" function.  This is D7

Jeremy 

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Sent: 2 December 2005 14:12
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Renaming file in use

This is no help but...  How do you do it in Win2K and above? 

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
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Wild Software Ltd



Jeremy Coulter wrote:

> Hi All. I am sure I have seen this mentioned before, but I has as part 
> of an app. the ability to auto update. part of the update process is, 
> it needs to rename the current running app. to .old.
> this this fin under win2K onwards, but on winnt and win98, it throws 
> an error.
>  
> Is there a work around? I did a search on Google, but not a lot came 
> back....but that could have been how I was searching too.
>  
> Jeremy
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