You COULD go into DBUTIL and modify the database so it is a READ only database. Naaaahh, that's too easy! [Besides, many applications open them for READ/WRITE even though they do no updates. (Then the application pukes.)] > -----Original Message----- > We're converting from our HP3000 "legacy" applications to an ERP real > soon now; management has decreed that the HP3K apps must still be > available for lookups but that nobody should be able to enter new, or > modify existing, data. I figure the simplest thing to do is > change all > of the databases so that the write class list is empty.