>Hi everybody,
>
>I've tried the following three commands in the command window:
>
>USE H:\VFPAPPS\HelpDesk\Data\users.dbf ALIAS Users IN 0
>USE S:\VFPAPPS\HelpDesk\Data\users.dbf ALIAS Test IN 0 EXCLUSIVE
>ZAP IN test
>
>The last command gave me an error that file is read-only. How can I find the read-only status on the use command?
You can use ADIR() to determine if a file is read-only.
EXCLUSIVE is not the same as read-only - in fact there is a NOUPDATE clause to USE which I don't think is widely used.
Regards. Al
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