> Win32 is brain-dead: a file open for writing by one process can't even
>  be read by another process that opens it in the normal way--you'll
>  actually have to download a special tool for that (I recommend an
>  editor called "textpad") that understands the magic incantation for
>  "yes, I know it's locked, let me read it anyway".

This is not braindead, this is by design.  The WinAPI call to open a file can 
request certain exclusive rights to the file, and will fail if they are not 
met.  Wordpad probably just want exclusive read and write rights, which the 
system won't give it.  Notepad works fine, and so does `more`.

-cm

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