How do I self-extract in XP?

[queue1114]

I had built a self extracting program some years ago in the windows 95 environment. That file still works on all windows environments, but when I re-compile it in the XP environment, I now get an I/O error "32" when it attmpts to open itself using the "reset" function. This is a shared violation. I never had this problem in earlier versions of windows. How do i get around this problem?

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[geoclock]

You need to make sure you are opening the file for read-only (FileMode:=0). Earlier versions of the OS were satisfied by your not writting to a file in r/o use, but ME and later make you first promise not to write to it.