Thanks to all. I don't have any control over the system that is using exclusively.

I guess I will have to talk with the programmer.

Thanks!

>>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,
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>>Yossi
>
>Simple, DO NOT use it exclusive :-)
>There is no need of that.