>>Do you think that will help? I sure can try that. I wasn't aware of the ALIAS command.
>
>Yes, there is a little problem. If you have table open in shared mode and then try to open it again exclusive it would not give you any errors, but would remain opened in shared mode. So, you should always do
>
>use in select('MyTable')
>try
> use MyTable in 0 alias MyTable exclusive
>catch to loErr
>endtry
Try..catch was not available in VFP7.... :-)