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>>Maybe somebody/something else has it open at that time?
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>If it's open, it would be the same application. Everything is local.
This is quite possible, depending on how you created it. If you use FileToStr(), the file will immediately be closed (I think). But with many other approaches, including SET ALTERNATE, and fcreate() + fwrite(), the file MAY remain open.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
