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? ISREADONLY("moov")

>Yes, your right, there is no way for Fox to update a CD!@#$%$%#@.
>
>But how does one access properties of a table in code?
>
>moov is cursor's alias
>dataenvironment is dataenvironment name for form
>moov is cursor1 in dataenvironemnt
>
>I've tried:
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>1) dataenvironment.cursor1.readonly
>dataenvironment.moov.readonly
>2) path\moov.readonly
>path\moov.dbf.readonly
>3) cursorgetprop is no help
>
>Thanks
>
>Ron