>>>>>What would force a table to be opened with READONLY=.T.? I am performing the following command:
>>>>>
>>>>>USE (pcFileName) IN 0 AGAIN ALIAS mytable SHARED
>>>>>
>>>>>This is being executed in the Init method of a form with the variable 'pcFileName' being passed as a >>>>lparameter.
>>>
>>>>>Is it a real table? Is it open somewhere else? If yes, what is the mode? Do you have a read-write access to
>>>>>that file?
>>>
>>>The table is a form (scx), it is not open anywhere else and I have read-write access. I can open the form with >>the MODIFY FORM command; but if opened via my form Init method as above it is being opened readonly.
>
>>Even if an .SCX is marked read-only, you can still open it with MODIFY FORM, you just can't save the changes. It >will also say "Read-Only" in the form designer titlebar.
>
>Yes, this is expected behavior -- what else (besides the file attribute of READONLY) would cause a USEd table (or SCX) to be READONLY?

If the file is also part of the .EXE, it would appear as readonly, too.