[fpc-pascal] FreePascal Windows - Force files to write to disk

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Feb 22 22:42:45 CET 2017


On 22/02/17 21:00, James Richters wrote:
> I suppose a virus scanner could access it, I didn't think of that.   I guess
> I should have said no other program intentionally access the file.   It's
> just a way for me to store some variables and get them back, it serves no
> other purpose.

A virus scanner might disagree. .pax is a known type which might contain 
an archive hence a whole lot of nasty stuff, and it probably isn't wise 
to use it casually... call it .txt or use the standard .ini format.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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