> > Hi Fox heads. > I'm running FPW 2.x on Novell Netware 4.10 and when i try to open a table already opened by other user (with SET EXCLUSIVE ON in one of the users) my system locks. I need a way to detect the status of the file before the USE command. > Thanks Amir, If your systems locks as you say, you might want to change the setting of your SET REPROCESSING. From HELP it must be set to -1. Set to another setting that might be convenient, but then ... You should 'Trap' the error. To my knowledge there are three error numbers that control this: 3,108,1705. If you have an error handler, you should treat these errors as exceptions, and set some kind of global variable to indicate that an error has occured. Otherwise you might implement the following: *** *** --------------------------------------------- *** procedure tblOpen parameters xAlias * assuming the table was not opened yet. private all like x* xError= 0 on error do tblOpen1 select 0 use (xAlias) if xError= 0 return .t. && your table was opened succesfully else return .f. && could not open the table due to inaccessability endif *** *** *** procedure tblOpen1 on error if inlist(error(),3,108,1705) xError= 1 endif HTH Marc