File marked as open when it's not!

I've got 30 or so files that have been marked as 'open' when they are not (a lab lost power and everyone had a file open on the server). There must be a unix cmd to change the 'open bit' on a file so that we can open these again.
Usually, copying a file with this problem to another volume fixes this problem (as root), but it is not working this time.
These are appleworks files on a 10.4. server.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

Weird that you got no replies. Just guessing here, but one typical way to flag a file as open is by creating a "lock" file. The lock file is just an empty file created with a filename that is hashed-up from the file that you want to lock. And, it is usually made hidden by making the first character of the lock-file name ".".
For instance, to lock the file myProject.html, the application may create an empty file named .myProj~_63.lok, or something like that. It's often in the same directory, but it could be in /usr, /usr/local, /tmp, or anywhere, really. You'll have to look around.
Knowing what application these 30 students were running when the power went out would be helpful.
Mark
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