Sergey,
why would anybody change the attributes of a dbf to write/delete/update to a read-only file?
I can’t think of any time this would be advisable.



>>All,
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>>Help, help, any idea on updating readonly dbf file?
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>You can temorary remove readonly attribute of the file, update it and than set readonly attribute back. See How to change file attributes programmatically FAQ #15763.