>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I've tried the following three commands in the command window:
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>>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.

Thanks, it was a bit strange for me that I can open a read-only file exclusively.

You're right, these both statuses have nothing to do with each other.