>Dear Experts
>
>I have a dbf named Bank. Following codes work fine when dbf is opend exclusively.
>How will these codes work when dbf is not open exclusively. In other words please modify these codes to work in multiuser environmnet.
>

>	SELECT * FROM bank ORDER BY bankname INTO table bbank
>
>	SELECT banks
>	ZAP
>	APPEND FROM DBF("bbnks") && this will change natural sort order
>
>	select banks
>	set order to
>	go top
>	aa=1
>	do while !eof()
>		replace code with aa  && code is changed according to bank alphabetic sort order
>		skip
>		aa=aa+1
>		loop
>	ENDDO
>

Tariq,
If multiuser means that you can't lock the table in any way and there maybe someone using a record then no way.
Cetin