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Default Open a read-only copy

Hi all,

I have a program which keeps appending to a csv file. Every now and then
I'd like to take a peek at it to see how it's doing. But if I open it with
excel then my program will be unable to write to it.

Of course I can make a copy of the file and open that and delete it later
but that is kind of a pain. I wonder if there is an easier way to open a
read-only copy of a file, maybe with a single click or two?

grok