Hi,

I'm reading a file containing text and binary (extension .dat) information with FOPEN.

This file is used by a software and in the manual it says that if the file is going to be opened by an outside program these are the requirements:

1) File Handles must be used
2) Should be opened with
a. Inheritance Flag Set - This says the file is private to the current session
b. Sharing Mode - Sharing mode should be set to Deny None.
c. Access - Access Mode should be set for Read/Write access.

I know about the file handle, don't know 'a' and 'b', for 'c' there's "buffered" and "unbuffered" I guess for my purpose it doesn't matter b/c I'm just reading from it.

Does somebody know how to do 'a' and 'b'? or if foxpro is already setting this automatically?

Thanks.