Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual (G06.25+)
Guardian Procedure Calls (O)
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OPEN Procedure (Superseded by FILE_OPEN_
Procedure )
Safeguard Considerations
For information on files protected by Safeguard, refer to the Safeguard Reference 
Manual.
OSS Considerations
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This procedure operates only on Guardian objects. If an OSS file is specified, 
error 1163 is returned.
Example
CALL OPEN ( FILE^NAME , FILE^NUM );
The file in this call has the following defaults; wait I/O, exclusion mode (shared), 
access mode (read/write), sync depth (0).
Related Programming Manuals
For programming information about the OPEN file-system procedure, refer to the 
Enscribe Programmer’s Guide.










