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Apparently, this is a short comming of Object Ada running on NT. 
Appreciate all the responses.  I'm trying to convince the powers that be 
to migrate to GNAT.

Daniel Allex wrote:
> When Ada opens a file, the only option is for exclusive use.  This
> causes a problem when multiple executables may be reading at the same
> time.  Any suggestions?