I guess that's in the VFP9 documentation?... I don't see it, in the "OPEN DATABASE Command" blurb, of the VFP8 SP1 documentation.

Strange behaviour, but since it's documented it "passes" < s >

Thanks


>Hi Jim,
>
>Is it possible that the database is already opened in shared mode?
>
>Here is some info from VFP documentation:
>"If you open a database twice in succession without closing the database, the database retains the same settings specified with the first DATABASE OPEN command. To change the settings, you need to close the database and then issue the DATABASE OPEN command with new settings."
>
>Thanks,
>Aleksey.