>>I'm working on a VFP application that has to coexist with a Clipper app. so I'm using local views in VFP for accessing the Clipper free tables.
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>>Occasionally in VFP I'd like to just open a free table, update a field, and close the file. What I've discovered though is that Clipper and VFP don't seem to recognize each other's record or file locks (i.e. using rlock() or flock()). When a free table is locked by VFP I can edit it in Clipper and vice versa.
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>>The Clipper app. relies on being able to determine a record's lock status. Am I taking the wrong approach to having these systems coexist?
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>>TIA
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>VFP and Clipper use different record locking schemes and can't be reliably used in this way.

Craig,

Are you saying my approach is wrong (i.e. opening the free table directly) or that no matter what technique I use they'll never respect each other's locks.