>The applications do not_ share any tables. They dont share anything_.
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What about the FOXUSER resource file? If the apps both use the same FOXUSER file, and the FOXUSER.DBF and FOXUSER.FPT are no flagged as Read-Only by Windows, the first gets exc;usive access to it, and the second gets "File Access Denied".

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>>>Alternatively, you can explicitly open a file for shared access by adding the
>>>SHARED clause to the USE statement; IOW:
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>>>USE MyTable
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>>>becomes
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>>>USE MyTable SHARED
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>>The only possible danger with this is if the tables are in a database. I have found that if you have EXCLUSIVE turned on, you will open the table shared, but the database exclusive.
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>>Bill