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Depends on the followings:

  • The file storage location
  • The operating system of the program/software tries to open the file
  • What the computer language was written in of that software to open the file

Some languages may supply different ways to open a file in their library code, some may not supply any.

For those do, usually, the modes are:

Read only (implies the file must exist, sequential or random access)

Write (file may not exist, may be sequentially or random access)

Append (file may not exist, write to the end of file)

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