You are right. Indeed, a quick test shows that SET EXCLUSIVE is obeyed.
>I think it's VFP6 help error. SET EXCLUSIVE should determine if table is opened exclisevly or not.
>
>>According to the help: "If the table you specify isn't open, it is opened
exclusively in a new work area..." The emphasis is mine.
>>
>>I hadn't noticed this before (I use APPEND BLANK + buffering most of the time); but now I ask: wouldn't this be problematic for multiuser applications?
>>
>>Is this behavior still so in later versions of VFP?
>>
>>Must the programmer always include something like the following?
>>
>>
>>if not used("MyTable")
>> use MyTable again in 0
>>endif
>>insert into MyTable...
>>
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