That's not a very good reason to have to have exclusive access to the file. As a matter of fact it shows a poor design. At minimum, the system should be using temp files that can be deleted when the process is complete.


>It's a transaction file that needs emptying after each transaction after its contents get dumped to a permanent file. Right now the app is single user only.
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>>Why would you want to zap/pack thru a web app???? You would need exclusive access to the files.
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>>>Using VFPOLEDB and ASP, How does one to zap or pack a DBF? I need to use SQL to contruct my delete, update and insert statments. Perhaps a workaround?