Correction, I've already upgraded to 5.1i and am still getting a TRUE from NEEDUPDATE() when a file is in use and not really different.

-- Larry


>Mark,
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>Thanks for the reply. I'm using version "G" I believe, so I'll check out "I". It makes sense that the actual updating requires exclusive use, but I didn't see why NEEDUPDATE() would (just checking for differences). It sounds like you are saying in version "I" exclusive use is not required.
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>-- Larry