Since there is no apparent way to change a READONLY attribute associated to a file from a VFP function, I need to use the OS. I know I can do this at least three ways.

RUN ATTRIB or BATCH file
Windows Scripting
API calls

This is for my development machine, and using the RUN command causes the wonderful black boxes to bop around my screen. I am taking the ReadOnly off my data tables, DBF, CDX, and FPT files. I run this, everytime I start the test application, as SourceSafe sets the files as ReadOnly.

If you were to do this, which method would you use?