You can open a file to append, in which case the
version number isn't
changed. Of course, typical VMS applications open the log file and never
close it and assuming you code it correctly, other applications can read
the log file.
Unfortuantly at least version 1.9 of Samba (yeah, I know it's ancient, but
it works for me) has the bad habit of creating a LOT of log files. I
finally ended up creating a batch job to clean up after it.
Zane
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