Thanks for the refresher course :>

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>>I hope someone can help me.
>>I need to initially open a file exclusive, to issue a pack.
>>I want the first user in each day to do this. I have a routine which handles the first user in stuff...but my problem is that some users forget to get out.
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>>How can I test to see if a file can be had exclusive....without producing an error if I can't get the file exclusive?
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>>Rick
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>Often that handles by trapping for the error.
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>ON ERROR DO pExclusiveError
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>USE < file > EXCLUSIVE
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>IF .. flag set
>  ..abort
>ELSE
>  ..PACK file
>ENDIF
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>PROCEDURE pExclusiveError
>... Routine closes all tables
>... If fail set flag
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