"Sharing Violation" and "Invalid Handle"

["K. K. Collins" <kkcoll@nospam.siu.edu>]

Hello All--

Here's a year's-end question about a "feature" (bug?) of NBWin that's just 
about to drive me mad.  It involves the order in which I must, or so it 
seems, save a file.

If I am working on a file and want to save it to a floppy disk in drive A 
as well as to my hard drive (C), things are OK if I save it to C first by 
clicking on the little disk icon or by pressing Ctrl+S, and then save it to 
A on the command line (sa a:), and then abandon it.  But if I happen to 
forget this lockstep and save it to A first, when I try to save it to C 
(either by clicking on the little icon disk, by Ctrl+S or by using the 
command line, either with "sa" or "st"), I wind up with the error message 
"Sharing Violation" or "Invalid Handle," depending upon how I've tried to 
save it to C.  Nothing I can do (or know how to do) will get it saved to C, 
so I have to abandon it, call it up from A, and then save it to C.

Perhaps the permanently frozen midwest has made me a bit over-sensitive to 
this problem, but does it not seem a fairly insane sequence to be held 
to?  Is there something I'm missing here?

Happy New Year to all users of Nota Bene, troubled and untroubled alike--

Ken Collins