>>>I think Sergey is right in this case. I do remember reading that VFP 9 allows creation of index tags without exclusive access. I wanted to add this but switched to other task and forgot.
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>>Maybe,
>>I never met such bug, because when I need to INDEX some file I always opened it exclusive :-)
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>>That is why I said "That code should bomb in ALL versions of VFP" :-)
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>It should, but it didn't :)
Thank God, I never try to INDEX a Shared file :-)
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