[DUG] Renaming file in use

[Rohit Gupta]

Jeremy,

I am surprised it worked on any OS.  We do something very similar to 
John, for an even more important reason - updating workstations 
automatically for al lexes and dlls.


Jeremy Coulter wrote:

>I just used the "RenameFile" function.  This is D7
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>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
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>This is no help but...  How do you do it in Win2K and above? 
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>Rob Martin
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>Jeremy Coulter wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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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