>>What would force a table to be opened with READONLY=.T.? I am performing the following command:
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>>USE (pcFileName) IN 0 AGAIN ALIAS mytable SHARED
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>>This is being executed in the Init method of a form with the variable 'pcFileName' being passed as a lparameter.
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>Greg
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>This is where it's useful for people to include their OS in the message. If you're not in XP, and the tables
>were copied across from a CD, then they'd all be read-only. But that's just speculation, not knowing the full SP.
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>You didn't say if you get an error message on opening or what.

I am in WinXP; the file is not marked readonly at the file level. The file is actually a form; I can open it with MODIFY FORM, but when attempted (no where else is the file open) to open as above, the file is opened in readonly. No error message is given (the USE command above is in a TRY - ENDTRY construct).