Nope, I didn't.  Now that you mention it, though, it does makes sense that
read access is necessary to do this.  I guess this belongs in the category
of "Duh!".  ;-)

Thanks,

Mark Peters

"Jan Slodicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Did you try vfsModeReadWrite open mode?
>
> Jan Slodicka
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark A. Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > My app maintains a cache of information in a file on a VFS volume.  In
> order
> > to improve performance of the cache, I was hoping that I could update
> > selected entries in this file, rather than writing the whole thing out
> > whenever anything changes.  Unfortunately, it appears that this is not
> > supported.  Can somebody confirm/deny this?
> >
> > What the code does is open the file for write access (no truncate), seek
> to
> > the proper portion of the file, write the data, then close the file.
The
> > result, however, was that the only data in the file was what was
written,
> > i.e., the file was truncated to zero length, then the data written.
> >
> > Is that the way it is supposed to work?  Is there some other way to
update
> > selected portions of a VFS file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark Peters
> >
> >
> >
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