>I have a Network Application that is occasionally bombing with a message stating "UNABLE TO WRITE TO A READ ONLY FILE"
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>I save the status to the error log when this occurs and found a very interesting problem - Here is what it shows
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>Select area: 44, Table in Use: G:\DATA\FILE1.DBF (Readonly) Alias: FILE1
> Code page: 0
> Lock(s): Exclusive USE
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>It shows as read only yet it is locked exclusively. This is not a consistant problem - most of the time the file opens normally
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>Thanks,
>Pete Berlowitz

We had the same problem with VFP7 running on a Novell network. Problem was fixed by the latest version of the Novell client.
HTH

Pete