>I have searched the SourceGear site for your instructions, but was unable to find them. Do you still have them or know where I can find them?
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I found the directions (but it was difficult):

From my post on the Sourcegear Vault Forum (http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=5071&p=20147#p20147):

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The (or a) trick in Vault is to:

In Vault Admin, for the given repository (or all, your choice):

a) make the entire repository concurrent checkout style (uncheck Require Exclusive Locks)
b) take all but the single file type used in development out of the mergeable list of file types

On the client, in Options:

a) uncheck request exclusive locks
b) indicate Make Readonly for checkout style

Now, when the checkout dialog appears, request exclusive lock will be unchecked, when you know you really want it checked; but not to worry, as Vault will see all but the desired file type to be a "binary" file, and demand an exclusive lock anyway.

Maybe all of this is not required; but since our work occurs through the COM API calls from our IDE in Visual FoxPro, I decided to make sure all defaults were what we needed on the client settings. Whether needed or not, it is working this way.

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enjoy,

Hank