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open()

Syntax

file("whichFile").open( {[#read: TrueOrFalse, #write: TrueOrFalse, #create: TrueOrFalse]} ) 

Description

Multiuser Server server-side command; opens the specified file. The optional parameters are formatted as a property list. Set #read to TRUE (the default) to enable reading from the file. Set #write to TRUE to enable writing to the file. The default value for #write is FALSE. Set #create to TRUE to create the file if it does not yet exist. The default value for #create is FALSE.

Example

This server-side statement opens the file LongSpeech.txt with reading and writing enabled:

file("C:\Text_files\LongSpeech.txt").open([#read: 1, #write: 1, \ #create: 0])