File sharing problems

Hi there,

I have two applications:

First one is written by someone else and writes to several log files, some it appends to and some it over writes. I dont know the fequency in which it writes to these, but i would say fair oftem maybe every second.

Second one is written by me and what i want to do is read these files every minutes. I am having problems where when I have one of the files open the first application reports that there is a sharing violation and that it cannot write to the file.

What i would like to know is: is there a way for me to open these files in VB without causing the other application to error and say there is a sharing violation. i have tried a couple of methods, including using the filecopy method, but have not had any luck. If anyone has any ideas that would be great.

Cheers

Mat