Bret,

Win95 local machine give the same result. foopen() is going to require that it's the only process that has the file open. You'd have to do something in C++ and use _sopen() to have shared read access to the file.

>Can someone out there try this and see if they get the same response.
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>Open a table as shared from a database in a private datasession.
>Then run the following command on the fullpath to the table you have opened, using another form with its own private data session.
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>lcfile = FULLPATH TO THE TABLE YOU HAVE OPENED e.g. c:\temp\table1.dbf
>lnfilehandle=fopen(lcfile,0)
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>Is the result in lnfilehandle less than 0, which indicates that fopen could not get a readonly open, which I think means that the table is being seen as exclusively opened.
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>Let me know your results.
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>I am trying this where the table resides on our Novell server, but I would be interested in any results.