NEVER heard of this one. It has been my experience that if a table is used EXCLUSIVELY (I mean opened using the 'EXCLUSIVE' keyword or with 'EXCLUSIVE=ON' in config.fp or config.fpw) then it CANNOT be accessed by any other fox program. Our programs (FPD26 and VfP6/7) share the same tables on a regular basis and I have never been able to open a table exclusively in either and open it again in another app.
Tracy


>If the table is used excl in VFP elsewhere I can use the table AGAIN.
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>Ex. Use tmp AGAIN
>Works even if tmp is being used EXCL somewhere else by a VFP app, it is opened READ ONLY.
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>However the same thing does not work if tmp is used by a 2.6 app. All I need to do is read from the table, not make any changes so READ ONLY is fine.
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>The error I get is file access denied.
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>Hope this clears the problem up.