I duno, but

IF ".TMP" $ UPPER(DBF("whatever")) and ISEXCLUSIVE("whatever")

sounds good enough to me.


>I still think looking to see if it's a temp file is the safest way to go. There could be other tables opened exclusively.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michelle
>
>>The exclusive applies always and a cursor product of a select statement is always read only (VFP7 will have a READWRITE clause).
>>But you are right, there are ways to make those guys writable and CREATE CURSOR
>>produces a updatable one.