>Hilmar,
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>I'm aware of both proposed solutions, and have used both. I was hoping for a VFP coding trick to preclude these time consuming work-arounds.
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>Thanks regardless.
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>F.Z.
I don't think so, because if ANOTHER program has a file in use (really, or only apparently, because of an OS-problem), it is not up to VFP to say that the file is NOT in use by another program. To keep things orderly and safe, the OS has to take control that a locked file remains locked - until the program that locks the file unlocks it.
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