USE table AGAIN IN 0 SHAREDand am able to successfuly open that dbf. But, from the VFP 9 enviornment it sits as it is "Attempting to lock" the file. With this same type of USE statement used in our application, we recieve an Error 108: File is in use by another user, but with VFP 6 this worked and was allowed to open the file again.