>Hi Dan,
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>>PMFJI But I thought the ISEXCLUSIVE was only detecting if you had the file opened exclusively on the current machine.
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>Here's his code:
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>set exclusive on
>USE xtable exclusive
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>isa = isexclusive("xtable",1)
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>so he's trying to see if he has the file exclusive on his machine. I'm, not sure whats happening. What if you specify an Alias and test that? Maybe the alias is already in use?

I was under the impression that when he said two different locations, he was running the program on two machines and then trying to use the ISEXCLUSIVE to determine if the other machine had the table opened exclusively.