>Not disagreeing, but just curious about something. If the *other* applications are old FP2 apps using explicit RLOCK() or FLOCK()'s does your assertion still hold true?
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>IOW, has anyone ever had a conflict between implicit locking and explicit locking?

Not positive here, but I think that internally, implicit and explicit locking are exactly the same. I have never had a problem with it, but then again, I have never had a high volume app that accessed data shared by a FP2x app.