>Hi All:
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>I have 2 instances of VFP running on my machine, to simulate a problem I'm having on a network.
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>On machine 1, I've executed the following:
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>USE foo excl
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>On machine 2, neither of these commands will then work. How can I gain read access to the file?
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>sele * from foo into cursor hello
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>use foo shared
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>use foo again shared
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>Thanks,
>
>Yossi

If the file is used exclusively, there is no way to open it in shared mode.