Macintosh File Sharing and Exclusive .DBF Use

  - Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.5b
  - Microsoft FoxBASE+ for the Macintosh, versions 2.0 and 2.01

SUMMARY

After the command SET EXCLUSIVE OFF has been issued in FoxPro for Macintosh or FoxBASE+ for the Macintosh, databases that are subsequently opened will continue to be opened exclusively if they exist on a local drive and Macintosh File Sharing has not been started.

To start Macintosh File Sharing, double-click Sharing Setup in the Control Panels window, and then click the Start button in the File Sharing section of the dialog box.

MORE INFORMATION

FoxPro and FoxBASE+/Mac rely on the file-sharing capabilities of System 7 in order to open databases nonexclusively in peer-to-peer situations. Therefore, if Macintosh File Sharing has not been started, FoxPro and FoxBASE+ will ignore any requests to open locally stored databases as shared. This behavior also occurs if File Sharing is in the process of starting up.

This situation will not arise between two or more systems on a network because files cannot be shared unless File Sharing has already been enabled. The only situation where this behavior is likely to occur is in a development environment where there are multiple instances of a FoxPro or FoxBASE+ application on a single system and the developer is using the same files to test the application's multiuser logic.