>>>>>>Do you think that will help? I sure can try that. I wasn't aware of the ALIAS command.
>>>>>
>>>>>This will not help, bacause the default alias is the name of the table. So USE DEAL ALIAS DEAL and USE DEAL are synonymous.
>>>>
>>>>What if DEAL is already open in shared mode? It will open it with different alias (A or B).
>>>
>>>If you open a file exclusive, it can not be already opened in shared mode, because then you will receive an error.
>>
>>Try this with your table:
>>
>>

>>use Trans in 0 shared
>>use Trans again in 0 exclusive
>>set
>>SELECT 2
>>?isexclusive()

>
>Yes, you are right, bummer!
>
>I forgot that if you open a table, and then you open the same table again, it will open the table the second time the same way it was opened the first time. This can cause many unexpected problems, because in fact VFP in this case ignores your "command". Anyway, in this case this would raise an error on the zap command.

True. Could it be that Mike has ON ERROR command that ate this error?