The 1 is actually wired to the deny mode, not the open mode. I would probably save a copy of the vi with a new name and change the open mode to read only. I suspect that would fix it. You would need to be careful though, because you would have to use the original version when writing files.
Bruce ------------------------------------------ Bruce Ammons Ammons Engineering www.ammonsengineering.com (810) 687-4288 Phone (810) 687-6202 Fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rochefort, Paul Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:47 PM To: Info-Labview (E-mail) Subject: Opening and Reading My problem is opening read-only files using the waveform file open vi. At the heart of this vi in the "Open file" primitive with mode input set to 1 (open). When I try to open the file, I get the following error "Error 8 occurred at a Open File in Myvi". To confirm my assumption Open file primitive was the source of the problem, I did a quick test trying to open a .txt file set to read-only and got the same error message. (The file are set to read-only because the file were burned to a CD and then transferred to another computer for analysis.) Obviously I am not first to discover this behaviour so I checked the Info-search without any luck. Is there a good way or utility to opening and reading this type of file while preserving its protective state. I running Windoze 2000 with LabVIEW 7.0 (Oh how I wish I could use my mac) Paul A. Rochefort Chalk River Laboratories AECL
