>Sorry, using v.7.0
You may also try with fopen() for read-write access with 99.999999999999999 % probability of correctly checking file's status.
lnHandle = fopen('myTable.dbf',12)
if lnHandle > 0
fclose(lnHandle)
use myTable shared in 0
endif
fopen()
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