Hi Sn,

The table must be opened exclusive before you can PACK. It sounds as though it is opened for shared access.

HTH,

TFISHER

>I am moving to VFP6 from FPW2.6 and to me, it is quite a steep learning curve and got caught in this problem. I am not dishearted yet.
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>I have a grid in a form and has set only one table in dataenvironment. I haven't reset any of the default properties. I create a command button "Delete". Its code is
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>set excl on
>goto 3 &&[it is the third record no in the table]
>delete
>pack
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>and all I get is an error message "File must be opened exclusively". The table is created under VFP6. So where did I go wrong?
>
>Many thanks for your anticipated solutions.