>>>Hi All:
>>>
>>>I have 2 instances of VFP running on my machine, to simulate a problem I'm having on a network.
>>>
>>>On machine 1, I've executed the following:
>>>
>>>

>>>USE foo excl
>>>

>>>
>>>On machine 2, neither of these commands will then work. How can I gain read access to the file?
>>>
>>>

>>>sele * from foo into cursor hello
>>>
>>>use foo shared
>>>
>>>use foo again shared
>>>

>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Yossi
>>
>>Simple, DO NOT use it exclusive :-)
>>There is no need of that.
>
>... unless you're planning to perform a PACK, modify data structure, add/remove index tags...

You shouldn't have such things in the application.
Even if you have the you should have some routine that show the other users you do such things :-)